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Daemon



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Daemon 07 Mar 2005, 16:59
Hi, I need some help in booting a raw image from DOS mode.
What I mean, I try to make simple DOS COM/EXE executable file which should read a raw CDROM bootsector at 0000:7C00h and run it. But when I run it, it hangs!
As I see, there's many interrupts & other mess which DOS should restore when booting to int 19h, but it doesn't!

Code:
        mov     ax, cs
        mov     ds, ax
        mov     dx, new_int
        mov     ax, 2519h
        int     21h  ;  set new int 19h handler

        mov     dx, fname
        mov     ax, 3d00h
        int     21h  ;  open file
        jc      error
        mov     [fhandle], ax

        mov     bx, ax
        mov     cx, 0800h
        mov     ax, cs
        mov     ds, ax
        mov     dx, 0200h
        mov     ah, 3fh
        int     21h  ;  read file to CS:0200h
        jc      error

        int     19h  ;  reboot to new handler

error:
        mov     ax, 0900h
        mov     dx, error1
        int     21h
        mov     ax, 01h
        int     21h

new_int:
        cli
        mov     ax, cs
        mov     ds, ax
        xor     ax, ax
        mov     es, ax
        mov     si, 0200h
        mov     di, 07c00h
        mov     cx, 0800h
        rep     movsb

        mov     dx, 00e0h
        jmp     far 0000h:7c00h


noerror db 'File open success!$'
error1 db 'Error opening file!$'
fname db 'no_emul.BIN',0
fhandle dw ?
    


This piece of code says "Press any key to boot from cd.." and when the key is pressed, hangzZz...

P.S. I try to boot a win installation from DOS. Could it be better loading SETUPLDR.BIN than original no_emul_boot.img from XP CD ?
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Dex4u



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Dex4u 07 Mar 2005, 17:12
Why do you not just burn a floppy image on a CD, as a bootable.
Most burn software lets you do this, my iso for my OS does it this way.
http://falconrybells.co.uk/
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Daemon



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Daemon 07 Mar 2005, 17:22
Dex4u, U don't understood. I _have_ a DOS-bootable floppy as a boot-image for CD. What I want is to run WinXP setup from dos command prompt not as winnt.exe but as if it were boot from CD itself... (winnt.exe copies setup files to HDD then restarts, while setupldr.bin runs w/o this mess...)
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Dex4u



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Dex4u 07 Mar 2005, 22:02
Sorry, i mis understud Wink.
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