All right. To your judgement is presented a patch for the metakern
manual that I think will make things clearer for unexperienced users.
Hope it sounds OK:
The best way to install FreeDOS on a common partition with
another OS would be to make a dump of its
Anton Shepelev wrote:
Dear, Bernd, everything had been fine (paths and filesizes)
but one thing: fdisk and bootmgr were returning wrong
bootsector dumps!
Are you talking about BOOTMGR from BTTR Software? Then I'm one of the
authors. I've never heard this problem before.
Anton Shepelev wrote:
I know my problem was confusion between MBR and the boot sector.
Eric already told me. ;-)
But anyway, fdisk and bootmgr should return the same data...
FDISK is wrong. BOOTMGR is right. *g*
Here's the corresponding code snippet from FDISK, where offsets = 0x1BE
are
Hi!
the corresponding code snippet from FDISK, where offsets = 0x1BE
are filled with zeros by design (second do/while loop). Does anyone
(Eric?) know the reason?
Sounds okay if you only want the MBR code and not the partition
table, but of course you also zap the 55 aa this is bootable
sign
