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Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:15 pm
by Nathan
Hello,
I was wondering if someone could make a tutorial about how to use and install BootProg, because I'm having a lot of programs when trying to install it to the boot sector, the program used to write the data to the floppy, keeps saying that my floppy has a FAT16 partition, not FAT12, but I think this is because I'm using Windows XP.
Best Regards,
Nathan Paulino Campos
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:05 am
by Combuster
Why should we make a tutorial on something that does not work?
Edit: I tried to verify your complaints: Windows is not broken. In fact, using bootprog to read the bootsector yields the correct result. Which brings us to the other point: WTF are you using a DOS application
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:15 am
by Nathan
Combuster wrote:Why should we make a tutorial on something that does not work?
Edit: I tried to verify your complaints: Windows is not broken. In fact, using bootprog to read the bootsector yields the correct result. Which brings us to the other point: WTF are you using a DOS application
Hmm, then I'm going to try by using VMWare emulating MS-DOS 6.22...
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:59 am
by Andr3w
You are crazy. Use BFI.
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:59 am
by gravaera
Hi:
Nathan, I think the video in this link will be useful to you. It's not long either; just fourteen seconds. Please take the time to watch it.
Title:"The most inspiring thing ever said..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA
--All the best,
gravaera.
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:42 pm
by bobmorton
gravaera wrote:Hi:
Nathan, I think the video in this link will be useful to you. It's not long either; just fourteen seconds. Please take the time to watch it.
Title:"The most inspiring thing ever said..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA
--All the best,
gravaera.
Lolz. I like it.
But Nathan just try to do what qandrew's said, use BFI.
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:29 am
by Nathan
bobmorton wrote:gravaera wrote:Hi:
Nathan, I think the video in this link will be useful to you. It's not long either; just fourteen seconds. Please take the time to watch it.
Title:"The most inspiring thing ever said..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA
--All the best,
gravaera.
Lolz. I like it.
But Nathan just try to do what qandrew's said, use BFI.
qandrew wrote:You are crazy. Use BFI.
Just one question: What is BFI?
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:51 am
by Solar
Valid question, I admit. My first couple of Google attempts turned up empty, too. But a couple of clicks later:
http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/ - a floppy image tool. I assume that's what qandrew meant.
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:43 am
by Andr3w
Solar wrote:Valid question, I admit. My first couple of Google attempts turned up empty, too. But a couple of clicks later:
http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/ - a floppy image tool. I assume that's what qandrew meant.
Yes, you are right.
I also want to add that there's a stub
BFI with links too.
Best regards,
-- Andrew
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:18 am
by Nathan
I've done it using BFI, but now after BOCHS boot it up, I got this error:
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prefetch: getHostMemAddr vetoed direct read, pAddr=0x000a5c00
I've done it using this:
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C:\> bfi -f=test.img -o=BOOTABLE.EXE -b=BOOT16.BIN
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:49 am
by f2
Nathan wrote:
I've done it using this:
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C:\> bfi -f=test.img -o=BOOTABLE.EXE -b=BOOT16.BIN
You need to specify the path of the directory which must contain all files that should be included in the floppy image.
BTW, is BOOT16.BIN a FAT16 boot sector? If yes, that's wrong. FAT12 is better suited for floppies.
Nathan wrote:
that my floppy has a FAT16 partition, not FAT12
Never seen a floppy with partitions. Well, it's possible, but I'm not sure if Windows recognizes that.
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 5:08 pm
by Nathan
What I got now was this:
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C:\>bfi -f=test.img -o=STARTUP.BIN -b=BOOT12.BIN path C:\
FindFirstFile() failed
Error code 0x3: The system can not find the path specified
C:\>
I've tried with sub-directories, other drives, but I got the same error.
Re: Tutorial About BootProg?
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:07 am
by f2
Nathan wrote:
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C:\>bfi -f=test.img -o=STARTUP.BIN -b=BOOT12.BIN path C:\
Replace "path" by the name of the directory.
Example:
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C:\>bfi -f=test.img -o=STARTUP.BIN -b=BOOT12.BIN binaries
"binaries" is the name of the directory which contains all files to include in the image.