From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: unable to boot as user
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 01:51:47 +0400
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Hello.

Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> I've thought about that, but was not sure whether that was indended
> behaviour for bootoff.
That is intended behaviour for bootoff
but since you don't use bootoff...

> however, for some
> reason, dosemu disables a: after booting, which results in "Current
> drive is no longer valid>" prompt (I don't use bootoff)
Yep, I can see something similar
here.

> which is kind
> of unexpected -- all I needed floppy for was doing "sys c:" and copying
> a couple of files to c:.
Agreed that it is confusing, but
I don't see any clear logic to handle
this setuation.
What I can propose is only the attached
hack. Does it fix your problems this time?


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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
@@ -891,6 +891,12 @@
     else dp->rdonly = dp->wantrdonly;
   }
 
+  if (!FDISKS && use_bootdisk) {
+  /* if we don't have any configured floppies, we have to use bootdisk instead */
+    memcpy(&disktab[0], &bootdisk, sizeof(bootdisk));
+    FDISKS++;	/* now we have one */
+  }
+
   /*
    * Open hard disks
    */
@@ -1011,10 +1017,9 @@
   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))

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