Re: [mtools] Making bootable USB flash drive

[David C Niemi]

Making a drive bootable takes more than just a low-level format and a file
system, you also need the system files that will actually be booted.  I
think that is more than just the boot sector.  How are they being created?  
And are you sure that both the BIOS and FreeDOS can access this drive?

DCN

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Eugene Kotlyarov wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to make bootable USB flash drive with mtools, but with no
> success.
> 
> I create it using bootsector from bootable floppy with a command
> $ mformat -B ~/work/floppy/floppy.img -t 16 -h 255 -s 63 -H 32 w:
> 
> It builds filesystem well but when booting it just echoes
> FreeDOS FAT
> and hangs up.
> I've tried MSDOS disk too with the same results.
> 
> Has anyone any ideas on how to make it work?
> 
> (I've attached minfo command output for floppy and flash images)
> 

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