Re: mknbi-dos with MS-DOS 7

[Mike Hammer <mike-hammer@usa.net>]

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.
>
I'm attaching uuencoded file of bootblock in this e-mail.  I am
also having some trouble generating MS-DOS 7.x (Windows 95 DOS)
ramdisk image from a file but no problem when using floppy disk image.

Regards,

-mh

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