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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:09:26 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video driver install problem

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In <200108301346.AA150143050@oco.net>, on 08/30/01
at 01:46 PM, "mrakijas" said:

>That's it!!! It's fixed. Rerunning SYSINSTX.COM C: on
>the drive with it in its absolute location fixed the
>problem. I thought I knew enough not to try something
>like this but I guess I also thought that there were no
>absolute references in the boot code. Everything works

I see you answered your own question. The boot loader needs absolute
references because when it's loaded into memory by the MBR loader and
given control it's passed nothing other than what was read off the disk.

Steven

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