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Hello there

I`m trying to boot my little boot.bin in Bochs but I got a problem. My floppy doesn`t work so I was wondering if can I create a virtual floppy drive in linux and write to it in normal means(dd). Or sowewhow link /dev/fd0 to a created by my file that i can read/write data via dd and it acts like a normal floppy.
Thanks

Joseph1337 wrote:I`m trying to boot my little boot.bin in Bochs but I got a problem. My floppy doesn`t work so I was wondering if can I create a virtual floppy drive in linux and write to it in normal means(dd). Or sowewhow link /dev/fd0 to a created by my file that i can read/write data via dd and it acts like a normal floppy.
Thanks

If your boot.bin is a valid FAT12 bootsector you can insert it as the first sector of the floppy image and then mount your floppy (via the method that Combuster provided) and read/write to it using your host OS.

1) dd if=/dev/zero of=myos.img bs=1k count=1440
2) mkdosfs myos.img # mke2fs for ext2 etc ...
3) mount -o loop myos.img mydir


That's alll ...
When you are done ..

umount mydir