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Boot Record Program (C) Copyright Peter Norton 1986
From PC Magazine: Volume 5, No. 2, pp 271-275
January 28th, 1986
Description:
This utility will re-write the DOS boot record on a floppy
diskette with a custom boot-up message. It is intended for
software distribution diskettes that do not have DOS installed
on them.
Requirements:
To use this utility, you will need a copy of IBM (Microsoft)
Macro Assembler, DOS Debug, Link, Exe2Bin, and the
following files:
BOOT.ASM ; assembly source you create by modifying
; one of the sample source programs.
BOOT-SS.ASM ; Sample source for single sided diskettes.
BOOT-DS.ASM ; Sample soruce for double sided diskettes.
BOOTMAKE.BAT ; Batch file to create the boot record
BOOT.DBG ; Debug input data. (Used by bootmake.bat).
Usage:
1) Modify the message portion of either BOOT-SS.ASM or
BOOT-DS.ASM and save as BOOT.ASM.
2) Insert the target diskette in drive A: (it must be formatted).
3) Execute BOOTMAKE from another drive (B:, C:, ...) Be sure
that drive is the default drive and contains BOOTMAKE.BAT,
BOOT.ASM, BOOT.DBG, MASM.EXE, LINK.EXE, EXE2BIN.EXE,
and DEBUG.COM.
4) Follow the instructions in BOOTMAKE ... when finished, your
diskette will contain your custom boot message.
5) Test your message by rebooting with the customized diskette
in drive A: