another question: what can break?

[Erich Schubert]

> In other words, the biosnetboot option -- if your BIOS supports it -- is the 
> most flexible, least risky way to boot from the DoC with GRUB.

Thanks for your hints, they helped a lot...
as far as i now understood the way the old firmware probably chose was
to hook the disc handler 13h which would mean that it has to emulate a
real block device, is that correct?
Where do i find the old firmware, in case i want to restore the original
contents of the flash?
is that in DOC52.EXB in the ttfs_5.1.2 package from m-systems?

Thanks for your help!

Gruss,
Erich Schubert
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