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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ You will probably be prompted for your password. We need it to mount the floppy
And run it with Qemu :
$ make qemu
+ OR
+$ make qemu-hdd
+The second option boots from the HDD instead of the floppy
** HOW TO CONFIGURE THE GRUB ENTRIES : **
If you want to change the entries that appear when you `make qemu`, then edit the Grub-menu.cfg and `make floppy` again.
@@ -32,3 +35,8 @@ The options for the kernel command line are the following :
- init:<init_app> select the init application to run. empty string = go to kernel shell.
default is /System/Applications/PaperWork.app
+** About HDD.img **
+This file is not used yet, although it is attached to the qemu and bochs VMs.
+Its content can be updated with `make hdd`, the file copying happens in CopyToHDD.sh.
+For the moment, we use a boot floppy for loading the kernel as the floppy is the only thing the kernel can read for now,
+but we could as well use the GRUB that is installed on HDD.img.