Re: Boot DOS from file

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

22.5.2001 21:08:32, Christoph Plattner <address@hidden> wrote:

>Think about it: You load the DOS boot sector from a image file,
>ok, but this DOS loader (boot sector) tells to processor to
>find the msdos.sys and io.sys (or whatever name those files
>have, hidden on a drive). For this loading the INT13 is used,
>and this BIOS call cannot access a image file !!!

you can always emulate int13 ... if it is stored on harddisk, it can be easily 
be 
emulated as readonly drive. But you need to do somekinda stub which 
creates that emualtion layer.