13 Mar
2006
13 Mar
'06
11:11 p.m.
On 3/13/2006 at 10:35 PM Jules Richardson wrote:
So is there a way of putting the necessary files on
there from either
Windows
or Linux such that DOS will boot? Can't remember how MSDOS does it's boot
process now, but I assume that certain files (io.sys for one) need to be
in
certain locations on the FAT partition or something?
I'll assume that you're installing a late version of MSDOS, like version 7.
IIRC, the only thing about IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS entries is that they must
lie in the first directory sector and should be kept as contiguous files.
You can copy them over to the partition yourself, making sure that the boot
sector information is correct for the partition type (FAT32 partitions use
different boot code than FAT16 ones). Customarily, MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS
have the system attribute bit set, but DOS'll run just fine without that.
Also, you'll need to copy COMMAND.COM over as a bare minimum to get you to
a prompt.
Cheers,
Chuck