Well, the MBR is special program located at sector 1 head 0, cylinder 0 with datastructure for partition information. The code for detecting active Partition is 446 bytes long and then follow the partition table entries (4 of them):
bootable db ? ; Indicate active partition slice beginhead db ? ; Starting head (0 for primary DOS) begsector dw ? ; systemcode db ? ; Tells which OS owns it endhead db ? ; set to FFFF (65535) for maximum coverage sectorend dw ? ; ditto... startsector dd ? ; logical LBA Address of drive partition start I set it to 0 would still have to over come 512MB bios limit though? www.boodaa.de ... My mono-linguistic brain cant read deusche very well:-\ you can pass it on to him. --chris http://www.aotksc.com/ > -------- Original Message -------- > In forum the author sais he really would like to extend the image to the > full size of a stick, but he doesn't manage to do so because he does not > know exactly how to change the mbr. > > Perhaps someone of you can help him out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
