[solved] [linux] modify MBR FAT12

[f222]

Hi,
I'm trying to develop an OS, I'm on the brokenthorn tutorial, on the FAT12 part, I try to make a FAT12 floppy, I get here : [url]http://wiki.osdev.orgLoopback_Device#Floppy_Disk_Images_With_FAT12[/url] . And then I try to make /dev/loop0 a bootable floppy, I try using

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dd of=/dev/loop0 if=my_boot_binary bs=512 count=1

but when I try to use bochs with /dev/loop0 as a bootable floppy it just tells me no bootable device. If someone knows how to do it correctly I would really like him to help me.

Best regards,

PS : sorry for my bad english

[Octocontrabass]

but when I try to use bochs with /dev/loop0 as a bootable floppy it just tells me no bootable device.

You're trying to boot the image file behind /dev/loop0 and not /dev/loop0 itself, right?

The data written by mkdosfs is bootable; it displays a message and halts. What happens if you try to boot the disk before putting your boot sector on it?

If bochs is able to boot the blank disk created by mkdosfs but not your boot sector, there is a problem with your boot sector.

[f222]

I found what I did wrong, i did

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bochs 'boot:a' 'floppya: 1_44=/dev/loop0, status=inserted'

and not

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bochs 'boot:a' 'floppya: 1_44=floppy.img, status=inserted'

Sorry for annoying you for a such stupid thing,

[f222]

Just a little question : Before this tutorial i was on a french one where they said to do

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cat my_boot_sector my_kernel /dev/zero | dd of=floppyA bs=512 count=2880

wich is really easier, is it a good way to make floppies or not?

[Octocontrabass]

If you do it that way, it won't be FAT12.

[f222]

I understood that, but is it really useful to be in FAT12?

[BASICFreak]

I understood that, but is it really useful to be in FAT12?

If you want the disk to be read by an existing OS then maybe... EXT2 is also a choice for *NIX based OSes...

I prefer FAT as I can mount the image and copy files over without writing utilities... (and I've avoided EXTx due to lack of Windows drivers, though I am actually unsure why that's my case as I only use linux unless I want to play a game...)

[madanra]

(and I've avoided EXTx due to lack of Windows drivers, though I am actually unsure why that's my case as I only use linux unless I want to play a game...)

I haven't used Windows (apart from at work) for a couple of years now, but when I did I found ext2fsd worked fine.