Re: Re: standalone code for bootstrapping

---In [email protected], <gerhardp@...> wrote :

>> code in sapstart.asm. It's open to
>> discussion though. I may be missing
>> something.

> What you are missing is flexibility. Depending on usage of a pack, the 
> VTOC starts either on track one (e.g., SPOOL packs), or is about 1/3 of 
> the way in the pack (lots of small data sets, as used by TSO and Wylbur).

The packs that I produce have the VTOC
appearing after the full IPL program:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/s370/ctl.txt

> A better design would be to have an intermediate loader program in 
> record 4.

Ok. That would work too. But my PLOAD.SYS
*is* an intermediate loader program, that loads
PDOS.SYS by name. It's just that I wish to
minimize assembler usage, so pload.sys is
written mostly in C and thus big.

BFN. Paul.