Re: [ECOS] Re: Loader and Disk Geometry (x86)

[elf at florence dot buici dot com]

Even requiring a FAT16 partition is inconvenient.  All I do is write
the ecos boot image to the partition I want to use and I'm good to go.

>From Linux booted on my target system:  

  dd if=gdb_module.bin of=/dev/fla2

I'm using Lilo on /dev/fla.  I'll probably move to GRUB, eventually.

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:49:19PM +0400, Roman Khvatov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> > Interesting.  I'm wanting to boot to an arbitrary hard drive partition
> > without a filesystem.  The MSDOS requirements are a problem as I don't
> > have it.
> 
> You won't need to have a MSDOS installed to use this kind of boot, only
> MSDOS based file system (FAT16) must exists. If you need to boot from
> raw partition (without any file system at all), you need another one kind
> of boot loader - some kind of original boot, adapted to read not from start
> of disk but from start of partition.
> 
> BTW - fmt.exe utility can create FAT16 file system on HDD (but only with
> it's own partition table)
> 
> Roman.