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2017 Aug 04
2
bootloader installation improvements
...R" option, which will
provide as many "reserved sectors" as are required, before the
filesystem data area. "ldlinux.sys" could easily be placed there,
contiguously, safe from the OS filesystem driver, which does not
understand that it cannot be touched.
http://manpages.org/mkfsfat/8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system#Layout
Alternatively, why is there not an option to install "ldlinux.sys" in a
separate partition, which is what GRUB does with its bootloader? A USB
flashdrive could easily be formatted with two partitions, a small one
for &...
2017 Aug 06
0
bootloader installation improvements
...from the OS filesystem driver, which does not
> understand that it cannot be touched.
See above. Also, it can not be expected that we install to a pristine
file system prepared in the perfect manner with a optional parameter.
Eating 64k on a 160k floppy is unfeasible.
> http://manpages.org/mkfsfat/8
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system#Layout
>
> Alternatively, why is there not an option to install "ldlinux.sys" in a
> separate partition, which is what GRUB does with its bootloader? A USB
> flashdrive could easily be formatted with two p...