On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Joe Magee wrote:
> I apparently need to create a boot floppy with a MS-DOS file system.
> 
> I have created custom boot floppies and these physical floppies successfully
> boot systems with floppy drives. However, we have some diskless workstations
> that download a boot image when required.
> 
> When sending the bootfloppy.fs file to these systems, they do not boot. (I
> use the same bootfloppy.fs file to create the physical boot floppies).
> 
> We believe that the bios in the diskless workstations is expecting an MS-DOS
> formatted image.
> 
> I've reviewed the Makefiles for the boot floppies and cannot determine a
> definitive place where I can define the image for the boot floppy to be
> MS-DOS, nor how to get this format into the resulting xxx.fs file.

Just put the kernel on the boot floppy, and use dosboot.com to load
it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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