Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard? [Solved]

2006-10-20 Thread Eric Auer
1) The partition table is moved from sector 0 to sector 1 2) Some code is written to sector 0. This code asks for a password and if you fail, you can't boot. So far so good. I found the problem to be in initdisk.c, function ScanForPrimaryPartitions. What happens is that when the tool has

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

2006-10-20 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi all, found a promising project under www.boodaa.de There you will find an application called bootdisk2bootstick v0.8. This application can create a bootable usb stick using a bootable floppy image. The only problem is that the usb stick is only 1.44MB in size after that, but it is bootable.

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard? [Solved]

2006-10-20 Thread Marton
But DOS 7+ is LBA, right? It works like a charm there... If the partition is at sector 0, ScanForPrimaryPartitions gets 0 as the startSector. This is in most if not all cases, right? Well if the tool moves it to sector 1 and tells FreeDOS that the partition is there, and FreeDOS recognizes the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

2006-10-20 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 14:13 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: Hi all, found a promising project under www.boodaa.de There you will find an application called bootdisk2bootstick v0.8. This application can create a bootable usb stick using a bootable floppy image. The only problem is that the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

2006-10-20 Thread tekno1911
Well, the MBR is special program located at sector 1 head 0, cylinder 0 with datastructure for partition information. The code for detecting active Partition is 446 bytes long and then follow the partition table entries (4 of them): bootabledb ? ; Indicate active partition slice beginhead