FAT12

[chris]

In my boot sectors BPB, how am I supposed to know what reasonable values are for things like BPB_SecPerClus or BPB_RsvdSecCnt? All I'm going to be using the file system for is my second stage and kernel.

Also, what do I need to read off the floppy and interpret to find my files? I understand there is a reserved region for the boot sector, a FAT region, a root directory region, and a data section. What has what in it (besides the obvious data section)? What format do the entries have?

I read the FAQ and some of the FAT spec but I'm kind of confused here...

[ASHLEY4]

Go here and get "bootprog.zip" great program in nasm, which is well commented and will give you all the info you need.
http://alexfru.chat.ru/epm.html

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ASHLEY4.

[Neo]

My bootloader. May be useful,(its quite easy to read and understand).
get it here

[Candy]

the FAT file system specification from Microsoft?

Hint: google for "FAT file system specification microsoft" and take the .doc link from microsoft.com.