Re: unable to boot as user

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

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Hello.

> At last I was able to track down the problem. It turned out to be that
> one should have the real floppy accessible in order to boot from the
> image. In my case, ordinary users have no access to /dev/fd0.
> I suggest the change below.
Your patch doesn't seem to attack
the root of the problem:)
Does the attached patch fixes this?

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--- src/base/misc/disks.c	Tue Mar 19 00:58:12 2002
+++ src/base/misc/disks.c	Fri Jun 14 23:17:10 2002
@@ -1011,10 +1011,9 @@
   int checkdp_val;
 
   disk = LO(dx);
-  if (disk < FDISKS) {
-    if (!disk && use_bootdisk)
-      dp = &bootdisk;
-    else
+  if (!disk && use_bootdisk)
+    dp = &bootdisk;
+  else if (disk < FDISKS) {
       dp = &disktab[disk];
     switch (HI(ax)) {
       #define DISKETTE_MOTOR_TIMEOUT (*((unsigned char *)0x440))