Hallo Herr Harald Arnesen, am Freitag, 23. Juni 2023 um 21:29 schrieben Sie:
> Patrick McCavery [23/06/2023 18.13]: >> If I could run format \s right from Linux, I could use all of my >> existing toolchain and I would not have to run this command on a USB key >> from within qemu. >> > Could this be done? > Get a copy of the bootsector from a DOS disk, store it somewhere on your > Linux machine, format your disk from Linux, dd the bootsector to the disk. Nope. not 'a DOS disk', it must be a FreeDOS disk. and then again, nope. the bootsector contains some (~50 byte) disk specific data like disk size, cluster size ... and then some MSDOS/FreeDOS code to load kernel.sys into memory. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
