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2018 Jan 05
0
Structure of VBR in FAT32?
...on the filesystem (Gene had
started to explain)?
> The SYSLINUX bootloader gets to be installed by means of a command line
> - there are several installers, see the wiki.
Yup, I know that, having used it for a long time. This is the first time I
am digging into its "guts". ("syslinuxoscopy"? Bad humour day...)
> When the partition in question was formatted as FAT32, SYSLINUX's
installer puts (bootable)
> code within the VBR
That being the few hundred bytes of difference between ldlinux.bin and
ldlinux.sys (minus the nulls for the ebpb, and the all-nulls second
512-by...
2018 Jan 04
3
Structure of VBR in FAT32?
> You might want to read Wikipedia's articles about "FAT32" and "Design
of the FAT file system",
Good pointer. I spent far far too long on that page figuring out how fat32
is designed. But the reserved sectors, there is the key.
> reserved sectors
Right! Immediately after the FSIS before the FAT.And it usually is 32
sectors for fat32. Take off the VBR and the FSIS,