[Freedos-kernel] Re: FAT - FAT32 - SYS boot

2004-03-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I think we should be able to boot from ZIP FAT32 if BIOS can boot from it as a normal int 13h device. After all, default BPB = FAT16 while actual BPB = FAT32 does NOT mean that FAT32 is generally broken. It only means that the partition table is wrong and marks the partition as FAT16. Whateve

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: FAT - FAT32 - SYS boot code testing???

2004-03-13 Thread Matthias Paul
On 2004-03-13, Eric Auer wrote: > Default BPB for drive X: according to Bootfix 1.1 by Arkady: > 512 by/sec, 4 sec/clust, 1 boot sector, 188 sec/fat, 2 FATs, > 0 / 195016 sectors, 0x.f744 hidden sectors (this is the > "partition position", looks completely wrong under the assumption > that ZIP

[Freedos-kernel] Re: FAT - FAT32 - SYS boot code testing???

2004-03-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, here the thing again "inline" for easier discussion (result file from previous mail): Default BPB for drive X: according to Bootfix 1.1 by Arkady: 512 by/sec, 4 sec/clust, 1 boot sector, 188 sec/fat, 2 FATs, 0 / 195016 sectors, 0x.f744 hidden sectors (this is the "partition position", loo