Re: Bootsector loader was (Re: installation problems - Smart Boot Mana

Aw shucks!

My backup was old.. :( The version I have only displays the labels in the
lower right corner. So the selection code is missing :(

Too bad. Is anybody still interested in seeing the code?

--Wolf

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Wolf wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Anybody knowing a boot manager that looks a bit like what I
> > described above?
> >
>
> I've started to write (back in year 1 and 2) a bootsector bootloader in
> ASM. (IIRC I left it in a atate where it displays a menu in the lower
> right corner (for kicks - my Olivetti M24 wrote something in the lower
> left, so I used the lower right instead) you could select an item from the
> menu (by pressing 1, 2 or 3, or the arrow keys or F1, F2 or F3). By select
> I mean that by pressing enter or any of the numbers you also executed the
> next code (that would have started the booting process, but I never got
> that far). Anyways It's in assembler for ASM, so the code is very basic...
> The problem is that I am no longer in the posession of that old Olivetti,
> but I made some backups (of the HUGE 20 Mb HDD) on floppies, so I'll check
> them, and I'm willing to release the code with GPL, as a base for this
> project.
>
> --Wolf
>
>

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