ms-sys
ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft's "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT32 partition, except that it does not copy any system files (only the boot record is written).
| Tags | Boot |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 30 Dec 2007 16:52
Changes: Makefile now supports DESTDIR.
- 20 Nov 2005 11:21
Changes: This release adds FreeDOS FAT16 and FAT32 boot records.
- 03 Aug 2005 17:33
Changes: The -p switch now writes the number of heads in BPB. The Makefile has been modified to work with newer version of gcc.
- 26 Jun 2005 15:28
Changes: Now ms-sys is able to identify an MS-DOS MBR with the undocumented F2 instruction. A bug in the Makefile that made it fail to install files unless target directories already existed has been fixed.
- 06 Jun 2004 03:00
Changes: This releaes compiles cleanly on distributions based on the 2.6 Linux kernel.
