Re: mknbi-dos with MS-DOS 7

[Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>]

Hello,

dick vlaanderen <dickv@vcs.co.nz> wrote:
> I am running netboot 0.8.1. When I create a bootable DOS image
> (Microsoft-DOS 7) from a directory using the mknbi-dos command, the PC hangs
> after loading the image. The directory contains all DOS system files:
> 
> IO.SYS
> MSDOS.SYS
> COMMAND.COM
> 
> It works fine for Microsoft-DOS 6.22. I have the suspicion that is has to
> with the IO.SYS file for DOS 7.

Your suspicion is probably right. I assume the boot block which gets written
by mknbi-dos does not work for MS-DOS 7.x. When you use a floppy disk image,
you will automatically use the boot block provided with MS-DOS 7.x.

> Also creating a bootable image from a DOS 7 floppy disk image works fine as
> well.

Unfortunately, I don't have Windows-95 available for testing. Are you able
to send me a boot block from your MS-DOS 7.x boot floppy? It's sector 1 on
side 0, track 0 of the floppy. You can use

	dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootblock count=1 bs=512

to get the boot block. Please send it to me uuencoded. I can then take
a look at it and try to fix mknbi-dos.

gero.

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