Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Killing off the boot sector (was: [STATUS 2.5] January 8, 2002) | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:23:33 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Can we *please* kill off the stupid in-kernel boot sector? > > Here is a patch that guts it to print an error message. It's even > tested.
> -# This procedure turns off the floppy drive motor, so > -# that we enter the kernel in a known state, and > -# don't have to worry about it later. > -# NOTE: Doesn't save %ax or %dx; do it yourself if you need to. > - > -kill_motor: > -#if 1 > - xorw %ax, %ax # reset FDC > - xorb %dl, %dl > - int $0x13 > -#else > - movw $0x3f2, %dx > - xorb %al, %al > - outb %al, %dx > -#endif > - ret
Shouldn't that part stay, incase somebody boots a machine from a floppy, and leaves it running for hours?
> + .ascii "Direct booting from floppy is no longer supported.\r\n" > + .ascii "Please use a boot loader program instead.\r\n" > + .ascii "\n" > + .ascii "Remove disk and press any key to reboot . . .\r\n"
Couldn't you put an ASCII penguin in there? :-)
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