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Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD (Miscellaneous)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 28.02.2021, 18:26

> From Jeremy, via the FreeDOS mailing lists:
>
> "It supports most ms/pc/dr DOS kernels
>
> Any issues found should be reported and I will look into them. The only
> issue I recall is it doesn't move files, so needs to be ran on freshly
> formatted disk for early kernels. The boot sector is not universal, it is
> customized when sys is ran. I used it to switch kernels for testing."
>
> So apparently both FreeDOS/EDR and MS/PC DOS style are possible with
> the flexible FreeDOS SYS and boot sector variants used by Jeremy

I was replying specifically to this part:

> You might be able to use some FreeDOS boot sectors together with
> one of the more flexible SYS versions to say you want the boot
> sector to load a file from the root directory with any name of
> your choice, to any address segment of your choice.

The other kernels require an OEM switch for the recent FreeDOS SYS I believe. It is not a matter of just setting the name and segment as the quoted part may have seemed to imply.

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Complete thread:

• Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - nico7550, 27.02.2021, 19:44 (Miscellaneous)
  • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - ecm, 27.02.2021, 21:27
  • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - mceric, 27.02.2021, 23:07
    • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - nico7550, 27.02.2021, 23:24
      • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - mceric, 28.02.2021, 01:48
        • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - ecm, 28.02.2021, 08:57
          • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - nico7550, 28.02.2021, 10:35
            • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - RayeR, 01.03.2021, 14:52
          • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - mceric, 28.02.2021, 16:09
            • Floppy boot sector injection/conversion to HD - ecm, 28.02.2021, 18:26