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lDebug boot loading other kernels (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 20.01.2024, 13:24

> > - boot sector that allows booting EDR-DOS, FreeDOS, PC DOS, MS-DOS v6,
> > MS-DOS v7/8, DR-DOS
>
> My ldosboot boot sector loaders can be built to cover a number of
> protocols, though you may need to disable some options to make them fit. It
> is easier to set up lDebug (using any sector-to-iniload protocol to load
> the debugger) then enter a boot protocol=PROTOCOLNAME command
> and upon success run a Q command to make the debugger hand over control to
> the next kernel.
By the way, you can load a kernel file from any subdirectory of a (FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32) file system. For instance, boot protocol ldos hda1/kernels/edrdos.com could be used to load EDR-DOS from a subdirectory. Further, I fixed a bug recently which makes it so you can now load traditional dual-file kernels (MS-DOS v6 or IBM-DOS, but not old EDR-DOS) from any two subdirectories. boot protocol msdos6 fda/msdosio/msdos6io.sys /msdosdos/msdos6.sys would work. If the files are in the same directory, a command like boot protocol msdos6 fda/msdos/msdos6io.sys msdos6.sys works too (if the add name doesn't contain a slash it is in the same directory as the kernel name). Details in the manual.

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