Here's potentially another util to try.. http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/boot-readme.html
On 8/1/06, Robert Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/1/06, Roy Vestal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok...I need to be able to boot from my live cd, create a FAT32 > partition, make it boot able, then remove the live CD,and reboot to the > HDD into DOS. > > Now, I have the partitioning down: > sfdisk /dev/sda < ./disk.info - where disk.info = 1,730,c,*. This > creates a 6GB Fat32 (LBA) partition set to bootable. > > Formatting: > mkdosfs -s 8 -F /dev/sda1 > > And I have the DOS IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM copied in THAT order. > > When I try to boot, it just doesn't. It's like there is no FDISK. > > DOS tools are not an option here. It *must* be created with linux. > > Any ideas? Unfortunately it's not that simple. Somewhere along the way you have to tell the bootloader where are those files. Try this util http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/ -- Robert Dale
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