Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #7, comment 1


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Apr 11, 2013, 1:31:54 PM (11 years ago)
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Ben Rietbroek
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  • Ticket #7, comment 1

    initial v1  
    66> It would be nice if the installer was able to install
    77> AB to any (selectable) disk
    8 >
     8
    99
    1010I totally agree.
    11 But at the time of AiR-BOOT's inception there were no BIOSses that couls swap
     11But at the time of AiR-BOOT's inception there were no BIOSses that could swap
    1212disks or select one to boot from. Therefore the 0x80 BIOS boot-disk is kinda
    1313'hard coded' at some places.
    … …  
    1616like swapping disks or booting from specific disks is in the works.
    1717
     18A bottleneck is the limited code space of ~31K with about 100 bytes left when building
     19the Cyrillic version. If nobody cares about the "Cooper Bars" or other "bling bling"
     20like audio this could be dropped, freeing up space to implement true enhancements in this
     21limited space.
     22
    1823I consider this a feature request.