Hi Lode,

On Friday 22 August 2003 12:25, lode leroy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I wonder if there is a way to use the GRUB to boot a DOS floppy
> image?
>
> something along the lines of
>
> GRUB> root (nd)
> GRUB> device (fd0) /dosdisk.img
> GRUB> boot
>
> I assume this would also require BIOS (INT13?) interception, to fool
> the computer into read/write'ing to the disk image instead of to
> the floppy drive.
>
> Has anyone done this?

Been there, have a look at my patches, send to this list 3002/08/01.
You need to prepare the dos image with mknbi-dos. On the plus side,
you can have a bigger fake floppies: 2.8, 5.6 MB, created on a loop 
device, and being able to mount this ramdisk as C:, too. I'm doing 
BIOS updates on diskless systems this way, PartitionMagic, and the 
like...

I would like to hear, if that patch work for you, too.

Thanks,
Pete


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