Re: Addon for the documentation and booting 286

[markus@infoscape.com]

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Bernhard Grill writes:
 > I just want to add a comment to the following :

Thank you very much for these comments; with your permission, I would
like to include them in my document.

 > I'm trying to boot DOS on a 286 with 640 + 384 kbyte of RAM. I have
                                        ^^^^^^^^^
 > seen several emails regarding the booting of a 286 on this reflector,
 > but I couldn't get a clear picture yet.        ^^^

If you want to remote boot on a 286, then you should talk to Ken. He
has done most of the work for this environment. Most notably, he will
be able to tell you, which version of "etherboot" you should use.

 > Record #2:
 >   Length of header: 16 bytes (standard) + 8 bytes (vendor)
 >   Vendor tag:       0x11 (ramdisk image)
 >   Reserved flags:   0x00
 >   Flags:            0x04 (absolute address, last record)
 >   Load address:     0x00110000 (high memory)
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >   Image length:     0x00033200 bytes
 >   Memory length:    0x00168000 bytes
 >   Vendor data:      80 cylinders; 2 heads; 18 sectors; disk id: 0x00

This will not work on your machine, because the ramdisk image is
loaded above 1MB, but your machine is only equipped with 1MB.


Markus

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