MK>If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then MK>command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I MK>need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a MK>Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector. MK>How exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields MK>in dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?) MK> MK>Sorry for being so dumb in this field... :) MK>
If you make bootable floppy from Linux, you have MS-Dos 6.22 Bootable floppys. If you are in Win95 and make a bootable floppy it loads IO.SYS from the c: root to the floppy, which is the MS-Dos 7.0/7.1 version. Linux can not write the MS-Dos 7.0/7.1 IO.SYS. Michelle
