NAME¶
srmbootfat - Linux/Alpha SRM boot block composer
SYNOPSIS¶
srmbootfat filesystem_image boot_file
DESCRIPTIONS¶
This tool is a quick hack and is not supposed to exist in its present state for
long.
Srmbootfat finds
boot_file in the root directory of the FAT file
system stored in file
filesystem_image and makes it bootable by writing
the appropriate SRM boot block into the file system image file. This will work
only on unpartitioned disks (such as floppies), because otherwise the boot
block would need to be written into the partition table, which is outside the
file system. However, a hard drive containing a FAT file system would most
probably be partitioned using the PC partition table, which SRM cannot boot
from anyway.
The bootloader (
boot_file) must be contiguous, i.e. occupy consecutive
blocks.
ARGUMENTS¶
- filesystem_image
- The name of the file containing a FAT file system image, e.g.
/dev/fd0.
- boot_file
- The file name of the bootloader.
AUTHOR¶
Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>
SEE ALSO¶
aboot(8),
mke2fs(8),
e2writeboot(8)