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srmbootfat

# srmbootfat

Linux/Alpha SRM boot block composer

       srmbootfat
            filesystem_image
            boot_file

## DESCRIPTIONS

This tool is a quick hack and is not supposed to exist in its present state for long.

Srmbootfat finds `boot_file` in the root directory of the FAT file system stored in file `filesystem_image` and makes it bootable by writing the appropriate SRM boot block into the file system image file. This will work only on unpartitioned disks (such as floppies), because otherwise the boot block would need to be written into the partition table, which is outside the file system. However, a hard drive containing a FAT file system would most probably be partitioned using the PC partition table, which SRM cannot boot from anyway.

The bootloader (`boot_file`) must be contiguous, i.e. occupy consecutive blocks.

## ARGUMENTS

`filesystem_image`

  The name of the file containing a FAT file system image, e.g. `/dev/fd0`.

`boot_file`

  The file name of the bootloader.

## AUTHOR

Nikita Schmidt cetus@snowball.ucd.ie

## SEE ALSO

aboot(8), mke2fs(8), e2writeboot(8)