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FAT boot sector
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 6:46 am
by GLneo
hello, ok i'm thinking about making my OS floppy disk able to have files copy/pasted on to it. but i dont now what is needed by the boot sector or the disk root dir to let windows xp see it ??? any recomended docs?, thx
Re:FAT boot sector
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 7:39 am
by bubach
For use in windows your bootsector must support FAT12, which means that you must provide a FAT12 header in the bootsector and load your file via FAT12 rules..
FAQ:
http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/F ... ef6b991863
BOS 0.03 have a FAT12 bootsector that you can take a look at:
http://bos.asmhackers.net/
Re:FAT boot sector
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:43 am
by Warrior
NICE top article, I was looking for a good Fat12 doc for my bootloader. Thanks