[syslinux] makebootfat: an utility to create bootable USB disks

[Andrea Mazzoleni]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:07:33 -0800, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Interesting approach.  The big problem is that with a FAT32 superblock
> and a partition table, there is very little space left.  I'd be
> interested in looking at your code.

You can see it here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/advancemame/makebootfat/mbrfat.asm?view=markup

Anyway, it's your mbr.asm with only minor modifications. It simply
load the real FAT boot sector which does the real work, so there
aren't space problems.

I've not mentioned that, but there are two copy of the FAT boot
sector. One is the real FAT boot sector at the start of the partition.
The other is the faked MBR which only load the real one.

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Andrea Mazzoleni
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