Hi! 14-Фев-2004 00:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
EA> Hi, Arkady reminded me that fat32lba boot sector stores fat_secshift at EA> offset 0x68 of the boot sector, thus overwriting CODE !? This would break EA> metaboot (generic loader for MetaKern menu entries) compatibility :-(. Fortunately (for you), real code change will happen only when sector size will be not equal to 512. EA> Please change the code so that no important data is overwritten. Then it I already do this. :) This is easy - simply use division instead shiftings. EA> will be possible again to have easy MetaKern installation with help of EA> metaboot EVEN FOR FAT32. Arkady tells that the fat32chs boot sector is even EA> completely metaboot incompatible - Yes - fat_start and data_start placed over code. However, they may be placed over unused BPB parts, like in fat32lba. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel