On 2011-03-18 09:15, Sean Dague wrote:
I think you need to explain a little more about what you are trying to
accomplish, because the description below is somewhat confusing to me.
-Sean
On 03/18/2011 10:09 AM, WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote:
Appreciate any suggestions concerning Standalone Bootable MultiOS Format
Software.
In addition to standard Linux options must be able to do FAT16 and
FAT32.
Also for this project the same OS file type will be used for the entire
HDD so partitioning features are not mandatory.
Thanks
Gene
I'm also confused -- I think I see a contradiction.
If you're looking to make software that's bootable itself, sort of like
how memtest86+ works for instance, then the bootable binary file is
architecture dependent, AFAIK, and there's no "OS" involved bacause the
binary image "is" the OS, so the term "Multi-OS binary" makes no sense.
Depending on what you're trying to do, there are options. If this is
something being booted from CD, the CD could have a GRUB boot menu on it
to load a different OS and/or binary depending on the menu option the
user chose. The point here is that you don't necessarily /have/ to put
all of the "smarts" inside of the binary.
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-- Chris
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