Re: [mtools] mformat boot sector bug with mtools 3.9.10

[Alain Knaff]

On Monday 04 April 2005 00:28, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I downloaded the source code for mtools 3.9.10 from
> As you can see the fat.bin I gave mformat ends correctly in 55 aa, but
> when mformat uses it as a template to create the boot sector used for
> the virtual partition, it clobbers it somehow.  If I omit the -B fat.bin
> flags to mformat, it correctly creates the boot sector with the right
> signature from its own internal boot code template.  Also I did not see
> this bug until I started modifying the boot sector template to try and
> debug some problems it was having, so mformat appears to be able to
> correctly install boot sectors you supply, but there is something about
> this specific one it does not like.

I tried to unhexdump your example of fat.bin, and use this as a
template, and it worked fine... Maybe something else is going on here;
could you doublecheck the size of your fat.bin? (it should be 512
bytes, not 511, nor 513)

Regards,

Alain