[OpenBIOS] Boot loader program

Edward Lukacs eml at fermi.usno.navy.mil
Tue Feb 1 16:50:54 CET 2000


> Does anyone on this list have a program that can write a file
> to a floppy disk that does not have a DOS OS on it. Just a plain
> formatted floppy disk.The program must be able to write a file 
> that is bigger than 64K to the PC floppydisk then load the program 
> into the PC main memory  for example; at 0000:0000 to 0000:7fff. 
> This will allow the  program I have designed to allow faster 
> development with chipset based motherboards without the use 
> of any os's or the need of a rom emulator. I have developed a
> program that will only do smaller programs but need help on
> getting a 256k program from a plain formatted non-dos floppy
> into the pc memory. Help!!!!!
> 
> //Ross
> 
> 
Sounds like either Linux(Unix) dd program or DOS's RAWRITE.EXE

Ed Lukacs

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