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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1641 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:51:36 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!wotan.compaq.com!moxie!hackney From: hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney) Subject: Re: Old Compaq Deskpro problems Organization: Home References: <MCKIM.93Feb18081235@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> Message-ID: <C2oGEv.44r@moxie.hou.tx.us> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 03:59:17 GMT Lines: 20 mckim@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim) writes: > The original installation to the hard disk [Compaq 386/20] was from > one of the bootables at wotan.compaq.com. > Can anybody describe what was done to create the bootable kernels at > wotan? The dist.fs on wotan is the stock 0.1 release, with the exception that the first 1024 bytes, the primary bootblock, has been modified. The kernel was not modified. The bootblock modification was done by Akihiro Higasi in Japan (higasi@mlab.nttdocomo.co.jp), and given to me by Tom Vijlbrief (tom@izf.tno.nl): "What Higasi stated (if I remember correctly) was that he replaced two nops with jmp . + 1 because the NOPS sets the condition code register. - Tom." -- Greg Hackney hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us