Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. > > > MK> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. > > > MK> > > > MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not > > > MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... > > > MK> > > > MK>Mirek > > > IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95. > > Yes it's needed but you said "first few sectors of the disk", > > no just copy it into partition. > > Mirek
> If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then > command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I > need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a > Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector. > How exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields > in dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?) > > Sorry for being so dumb in this field... :) Perhaps the best idea would be to download J David Bryan's document on "Direct Boot into...". Unfortunately I only have hard copy of Sean Edmison's version which includes linux (presumably he has left Rice so www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html is stale. But as your queries are mainly micros~1 oriented, this may not matter. There's a lot of info on their startup files and, very importantly, the filename juggling that you *must* respect when copying files to their partitions. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
