Hi! > Why not use SYS? It does this (although not like dd.) > SYS writes the FreeDOS boot to MBR.
No - SYS writes to the boot sector of the partition. It NEVER writes to the MBR. The SYS of other DOS and Win9x never write the MBR either, but for example the FIXMBR tool of Windows does write the MBR... If you want to read/write the MBR, you can for example use FreeDOS FDISK. It does not only let you edit the partitioning manually, but it also features a variety of script-controlled commands, including backup and restore of the MBR :-). Please use FDISK 1.3.1 or newer, as previous versions sometimes tried to recover from problems by deleting the whole partition table without first asking the user! www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdisk/ Eric PS: Note that because SYS only takes care of the boot sector, you can only boot primary partitions marked as bootable directly. However, boot menus can help you to invoke DOS boot sectors on other locations as well :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
