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   NAME
        AddBootNode -- Add a BOOTNODE to the system (V36)

   SYNOPSIS
        ok = AddBootNode( bootPri, flags, deviceNode, configDev )
        D0                D0       D1     A0          A1

        bool addbootnode( byte,ulong,struct devicenode *,struct configdev * );

   FUNCTION
        This function will do one of two things:

                1> If dos is running, add a new disk type device immediatly.
                2> If dos is not yet running, save information for later
                   use by the system.

   FUNCTION
        This routine makes sure that your disk device (or a device
        that wants to be treated as if it was a disk...) will be
        entered into the system.  If the dos is already up and
        running, then it will be entered immediately.  If the dos
        has not yet been run then the data will be recorded, and the
        dos will get it later.

        We try and boot off of each device in turn, based on priority.
        Floppies have a hard-coded priority.

        There is only one additional piece of magic done by AddBootNode.
        If there is no executable code specified in the deviceNode
        structure (e.g. dn_SegList, dn_Handler, and dn_Task are all
        null) then the standard dos file handler is used for your
        device.

        Documentation note: a "task" as used here is a dos-task, not
        an exec-task.  A dos-task, in the strictest sense, is the
        address of an exec-style message port.  In general, it is
        a pointer to a process's pr_MsgPort field (e.g. a constant
        number of bytes after an exec task).

        Autoboot from an expansion card before DOS is running requires
        the card's configdev structure.

        Pass a NULL configdev pointer to create a non-bootable node.

   INPUTS
        bootPri -- a byte quantity with the boot priority for this disk.
            This priority is only for which disks should be looked at:
            the actual disk booted from will be the first disk with
            a valid boot block.  If no disk is found then the "bootme"
            hand will come up and the bootstrap code will wait for
            a floppy to be inserted.  Recommend priority assignments are:

                +5   -- unit zero for the floppy disk.  The floppy should
                        always be highest priority to allow the user to
                        abort out of a hard disk boot.
                 0   -- the run of the mill hard disk
                -5   -- a "network" disk (local disks should take priority).
                -128 -- don't even bother to boot from this device.

        flags -- additional flag bits for the call:
            ADNF_STARTPROC (bit 0) -- start a handler process immediately.
                Normally the process is started only when the device node
                is first referenced.  This bit is meaningless if you
                have already specified a handler process (non-null dn_Task).

        deviceNode -- a legal DOS device node, properly initialized.
                Typically this will be the result of a makedosnode().
                Special cases may require a custom-built device node.

        configDev -- a valid board's configdev structure.  this is required
                for autoboot before DOS is running and if left NULL will
                result in an non-bootable node.

   RESULTS
        ok - non-zero everything went ok, zero if we ran out of memory
            or some other weirdness happened.

   NOTE
        This function eliminates the need to manually enqueue a bootnode
        onto an expansion.library list.  Be sure V36 expansion.library is
        available before calling this function!

   SEE ALSO
        adddosnode()