PC ROM copying

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From: Bilbo Baggins
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1986 19:59

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I have an old IBM PC with 64K of RAM on the motherboard, and I have just
purchased a hard disk.  By patching a DOS floppy disk, the copy of DOS 2.0
that I have is able to recognize that I have a hard disk.  However, this
does not allow me to boot off the hard disk.  What must I do to be able to
boot off the hard disk?  I have talked to one computer store that will sell
me a new set of ROMS for my 64K motherboard so that my computer will behave
as an IBM XT does.  Unfortunately, they want $50 for the ROMS.  I have access
to a 256K motherboard PC and to an XT and to a PROM burner.  Can anyone give
me explicit instructions as to how I can go about making my own set of ROMS?

Lastly, perhaps somewhere there is a program that I can use to boot off a 
partition on my drive.  I could then boot up my PC with the old ROMS from
the floppy and then type "boot 1" to COMMAND.COM to reboot off the first
partition of my hard disk drive.  If I a program like this, I would not need
to get my ROMS updated.

				Bob Brown
				brown@harvard.uucp
				brown@harvard.arpa
				brown@encore.uucp
			bob brown

			UUCP:  allegra!harvard!brown
			ARPA:  brown@harvard

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From: brown@endor.harvard.edu (Bilbo Baggins)
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Subject: PC ROM copying
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Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 15:59:27 EDT
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