On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
>> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be
>> able to track down.  It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do 
>> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that 
>> for loading the kernel and drivers.
> 
> The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy 
> image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly 
> know how to deal with it cleanly.  If someone were to lend me a thinkpad 
> or look at this it would be easy to fix.

Err, which place?  The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the
first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy.

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