From: Jim Burns (gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU)
Date: 05/01/92


From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns)
Subject: Re: Making a boot disk (please help!)
Date: 1 May 1992 12:51:19 GMT

in article <1992May1.080035.25648@ugle.unit.no>, hallvard@immhp3.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) says:

> The part of editing the bootimage disk I just cant get. I've
> got the pboot.exe dos program and it keeps asking for a filename? On my
> bootdisk there *are* *no* filenames that dos can recognize. I've no dowloaded

It's a lot easier if you modify the bootimage *before* you rawrite it to
disk. If that is not possible, use debug to edit the boot sector (Warning:
some versions of MSDOS will not edit a disk if it does not have a valid
boot sector - try another version):

c:\>debug
l100 0 0 1 # load to addr 100, from drive 0 (A:), sector 0, count 1
e2fc 4 3 # /dev/hd4 (addr is 100h + 508 = 2fch)
w100 0 0 1 # update
q # quit

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