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 Post subject: Boot a multiboot binary from DOS?
PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:17 am 
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I got an old industrial 386 board which have DOS on a DiskOnChip and no easy way to attach any external storage.
I managed to set up a way to copy files to it via a null-modem cable.
Now i want to non-destructively boot stuff on it, specifically my OS.

There are solutions for booting Linux from DOS (loadlin, linld), however they are tuned for Linux kernel and won't recognize a generic multiboot binary.
There is also grub4dos, but all it does is checking vectors then rebooting.

So the question is - is there some tool that can take a multiboot binary file and boot it, from under DOS?


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 Post subject: Re: Boot a multiboot binary from DOS?
PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:33 am 
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Ok, i found this thing called MBLOAD:
viewtopic.php?t=8549
It works fine.

However, as of right now there is exactly one mirror with this file that is up, and it's hard to google:
http://mirror.freedoors.org/Geezer-1/temp/

As a precaution, i also attached the file to this post.


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