Boot a multiboot binary from DOS?
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:17 am
I got an old industrial 386 board which have DOS on a DiskOnChip and no easy way to attach any external storage.
I managed to set up a way to copy files to it via a null-modem cable.
Now i want to non-destructively boot stuff on it, specifically my OS.
There are solutions for booting Linux from DOS (loadlin, linld), however they are tuned for Linux kernel and won't recognize a generic multiboot binary.
There is also grub4dos, but all it does is checking vectors then rebooting.
So the question is - is there some tool that can take a multiboot binary file and boot it, from under DOS?
I managed to set up a way to copy files to it via a null-modem cable.
Now i want to non-destructively boot stuff on it, specifically my OS.
There are solutions for booting Linux from DOS (loadlin, linld), however they are tuned for Linux kernel and won't recognize a generic multiboot binary.
There is also grub4dos, but all it does is checking vectors then rebooting.
So the question is - is there some tool that can take a multiboot binary file and boot it, from under DOS?