Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:06:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Sam Phillips <sphillips AT sphillips DOT reno DOT nv DOT us>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Creating Boot Code with DJGPP
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On 15 Aug 1996, Sam Phillips wrote:

>I was wondering if there was a way to create some code to put into a boot
>sector, and then after having it is there a painless method to put the code
>in the bootsector.
No way. djgpp produces 32bit, pmode programs which are very big as for a
bootsector code. Besides the bootstrap code is loaded in rmode and this makes
protected programs somewhat harder to use as a bootsector code ;-)) (in djgpp
case, as well as in all the others, you'd need to load a DPMI server or
another DOS-extender. And since you have no DOS at the boot time, how are
you going to start the DOS extender? ;-))))). 

Greetings, Mark

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