10 Apr
2005
10 Apr
'05
9:44 p.m.
Yea, so that's 9 years ago. Any computer newer
than 9 years old should
support it no?
Were any of them newer than 1996? If it is only computers older than
1996 that we have to worry about, I don't think that is much of a concern.
Well I fixed this bug (DL not passed in by BIOS) about a year and a half
ago. So, assuming that the buggy computer was a year and a half old at the
time that gives us a 3 year old computer that FreeLoader might have problems
with.
Anyhow, just changing the value to 0xff would not have
any better
effect, as it would still be looking to DL even on computers that do not
set it, so how is that any better of a fix?
This seems like a very closed minded statement to me. How can options and
configurability be any worse that having no choice at all? The whole idea
behind that code was to use the value in the BPB (because it SHOULD always
be correct for the disk), but, optionally, if you wanted to use the value
from the DL register you could do that also by setting the boot drive in the
BPB to 0xFF.
Now I'm not saying the using the boot drive in the BPB is the 'right' way,
and I'm also not saying that using DL is the 'right' way. But, if that code
is removed then if you don't get the boot drive in DL you will not be able
to boot, and there is nothing you can do about it. Except add the code back
in. I don't know about you, but I'd like to have the choice.
-Brian
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