FAT16, help

[lolkusus]

I want to add fat16 to my system, but all fat16 tutorials I found didn't work.
I have nasm compiler and my system is in real mode. When you find fat16 tutorial in assembler, please give link here
Thanks











Sorry for my English.

[bluemoon]

By "didn't work" do you mean the information provided in tutorial is inaccurate?
Have you checked FAT?

When you find fat16 tutorial in assembler, please give link here

Most tutorials are written in plain English and pseudo code for easy understanding. If you need assembly example just format and disassemble the boot sector. However, be warn that, if you plan to copy paste a boot code it is dangerous; you should understand the pseudo code and write your own.

[lolkusus]

thanks for help

[lolkusus]

And about "didn't work" I mean: didn't boot my system

[bluemoon]

If you really want some assembly code for learning purpose, I studied John Fine's code about ten years ago and may I introduce to you, and guess what, it's still there:

http://geezer.osdevbrasil.net/johnfine/index.htm

[lolkusus]

Thanks x2, you are very helpful.

[LindusSystem]

Click Here and you will be in a page where you will be making a bootsector booting a bootloader which will boot a kernel(dont go more).

[piranha]

I want to add fat16 to my system, but all fat16 tutorials I found didn't work.
I have nasm compiler and my system is in real mode. When you find fat16 tutorial in assembler, please give link here

First of all saying that something "didn't work" without explaining that is one of the best ways to gather animosity against you. Secondly, your posts so far have shown the basic lack of skills needed to program this kind of stuff to begin with.

And about "didn't work" I mean: didn't boot my system

Thats not helpful either.

Please:
* Learn to ask smart questions
* Learn to search the wiki
* Learn to google things
* Learn the proper knowledge needed before you start writing an OS or bootsector

-JL

[miker00lz]

yeah. i would say as a general rule of thumb, if you have absolutely no idea where to start to write your own boot sector, you are not ready to try OS dev.