Re: mkdosfs patch to enable booting

2003-06-21 Thread DJ Delorie
> NOTE: sent to redhat binutils list as it seemed to be the closest to > the proper list. There seems to be no real maintainer for mkdosfs > anymore... Sorry, binutils has nothing to do with mkdosfs.

mkdosfs patch to enable booting

2003-06-21 Thread Sam Bingner
This patch makes mkdosfs accept a new option "-B" that allows it to make a bootable partition. Requires that you give the filename of a file containing valid boot sector as an argument to -B. Will work if you give a bootable partition as argument. EG: mkdosfs -F 16 -B bootsect.fat16 /dev/sda1 m