1 Notes for "bootdiagnostic.b.gz"
5 The lilo boot disk diagnostic (version 2.1) is distributed in binary
6 form in the file: bootdiagnostic.b.gz
8 In order to create the bootable diagnostic floppy from this file, issue the
11 gunzip bootdiagnostic.b.gz
12 dd if=bootdiagnostic.b of=/dev/fd0
14 The entire 1.44M floppy disk will be written. This is an msdos filesystem
15 diskette with the files:
17 disk.com version 1 of the bootable lilo diagnostic
19 test4d.com version 2, MSDOS executable
20 hipboot.sys copy of test4.com
22 Whichever file is copied to 'hipboot.sys' will be booted by the special
23 bootloader on the floppy. As distributed, version 2, or 'test4.com' is
24 the file copied to 'hipboot.sys'.
26 The MSDOS executable is of some use if you can boot a bare DOS system. It
27 may be executed from the DOS prompt to capture the output to a file; viz.,
29 A> test4d.com >log.txt
31 (you'll have to hit a lot of CR's to get past all the pauses)
33 The output from test4d.com is not necessarily the same as from the booted
34 file 'test4.com', since MSDOS intercepts and modifies the responses to
35 certain bios calls. User beware.