I have a bootloader, now what's next? How to put in diskette

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swarmsea
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I have a bootloader, now what's next? How to put in diskette

Post by swarmsea »

Hello there,

I have a bootloader that I want to boot in from the floppy diskette, but the thing is that I've become so full of **** from all the googling and I have no idea what's now, so I have a floppy which is 1.44mb heavy and a bootloader bin file in 512 bytes with 16 bits, memory adress, simple jump, filling the rest of the file with 0, and bootloader signature.

But I have no idea what to do now, how to get my bootloader in the diskette, I've read several pages that I have to copy the bootloader in some place of the diskettes memory, is that right? Then I'v read some pages about virtual floppy drives and such. Is there one such tut

I know that this probably looks like spamming, but it almost feels as if I'm too smart from all these pages, what I'm worried the most is, will my bootloader work and if just the "jump" wont kind of freeze everything?...
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Milan
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Re: I have a bootloader, now what's next? How to put in disk

Post by Milan »

If you are using Windows, you can use RawWriteWin and VFD... Or if you are using Linux, you can use dd...
And read this:
http://wiki.osdev.org/Disk_Images
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