Re: making dos partitions: help
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 06:57, Dan wrote:
> Hello! I need to create a simple bootable fat32 partition.
> Partitioning, making it active, writing correct MBR isn't a real problem.
> Formatting that partition is trivial as well- mkdosfs -F32 device, but then
> the REAL problem begins. Is there a simple way to transfer usual msdos
> bootloader + system files without messing with BPB/FAT? I've tinkered with
> mkdosfs, replacing its dummy bootloader with msdos one. It does start, but
> still refuses to boot io.sys, due to io-errors (yes, I've placed io.sys +
> msdos.sys correctly and double-checked the FAT).
>
> What's the solution? Of course, using dosemu + dexe to run "sys source:
> target:" still works, but I'd like to do that using native linux tools.
> Another way is to create a small bootable partition and use dd to read/write
> image, but this way will work for this particular case only, cause some
> specific info is still located in BPB/FAT table. :(
I think booting from a DOS floppy and saying "format/s c:" or
"sys c:" are the only legal methods. The DOS partition starts
below cylinder 1023, right??
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