Hi Eric,
Here's what I tried:
- fdisk /dev/sdb
-> set partition 1 to FAT12 and bootable
- dd of mbr.bin (from syslinux) to /dev/sdb
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
- create FAT12 filesystem on sdb1:
mkdosfs -F 12 /dev/sdb1
- create bootsector using your tool:
./sys-freedos.pl --disk=/dev/sdb1
DOS boot sector for /dev/sdb1 will be created by:
nasm -o /dev/stdout -dISFAT12 ./bootsecs/boot.asm
Using FAT12, boot code starts at offset 3e. Extended info: drive 0,
res. 0, sig. 29, serno 4208-C9C4, name [ ], type [FAT12 ].
Boot sector successfully updated.
- mount sdb1
- copy kernel.sys and command.com to sdb1
- umount sdb1
- try to boot...
I get the string "FreeDOS" and nothing more :(.
- I also tried using the "--lba" flag with "sys-freedos.pl", but result
was same.
cheers,
Rob Urban
You wrote:
> now that you already overwrote things, it is of course okay to use
> fdisk and mkdosfs as you did. The only problem is that you gave the
> wrong --disk argument value to sys-freedos.pl ...
>
> Try that and check how far you get.
> If you really need a fresh partition table, try the one from
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/
>
> (Partition table -> file mbr.bin in the syslinux download)
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