[TriLUG] Here's a fun one - bootable DOS partition under linux

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Does your livecd have gparted? 

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Roy Vestal
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:40 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: [TriLUG] Here's a fun one - bootable DOS partition under linux

Ok...I need to be able to boot from my live cd, create a FAT32
partition, make it boot able, then remove the live CD,and reboot to the
HDD into DOS.

Now, I have the partitioning down:
sfdisk /dev/sda < ./disk.info  - where disk.info = 1,730,c,*. This
creates a 6GB Fat32 (LBA) partition set to bootable.

Formatting:
mkdosfs -s 8 -F /dev/sda1

And I have the DOS IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM copied in THAT
order.

When I try to boot, it just doesn't. It's like there is no FDISK.

DOS tools are not an option here. It *must* be created with linux.

Any ideas?

Roy
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