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This is almost completely unrelated to your comment, but it sparked a fun memory. At one point I had a system set up that would boot dos via ipxe with iscsi dri
by somat 3y ago
This is almost completely unrelated to your comment, but it sparked a fun memory. At one point I had a system set up that would boot dos via ipxe with iscsi drives. I thought it was almost magical how dos had no clue it was using a network drive. I still don't know exactly how it worked. but I suspect ipxe was patching the bios.
- bombcar 3y agoDOS was pretty reliable about using BIOS interfaces for drives; if you imitate the BIOS interface it’ll just work. The problems came from limitations of the BIOS interface (especially size)
- lproven 3y agoYup. Boot DOS off a USB key and it suddenly speaks USB. :-) Only for drives, but still...