where and how to put stage1 and stage2 on single floppy?

[raynesax]

Hello Sir,
I'm a beginner in OS development.I've read your tutorials on bootloader.Now i want to know that where(and how) to put my stage1 and stage2 of bootloader on floppy.Also i don't own a floppy drive.I'm using Ubuntu 10.04(Linux).Please help...

[pathos]

Hello Sir,
I'm a beginner in OS development.I've read your tutorials on bootloader.Now i want to know that where(and how) to put my stage1 and stage2 of bootloader on floppy.Also i don't own a floppy drive.I'm using Ubuntu 10.04(Linux).Please help...

Hopefully someone else can come along and help you (I can't =(, sorry), but until then, check this out: http://wiki.osdev.org/Loopback_Device#Creating_an_image. It may do what you need.

[xilvium]

Hello Raynesax,

I myself also use linux and I use this code to put my bootloader on a floppy:

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dd if=boot.bin bs=512 of=/dev/fd0

I DO have a floppy drive thats what this code is aimed for!
But you could create a empty floppy image and mount it and then write to it

Here's a little example (Taken from James Molloy's website)
You need /sbin in your $PATH for losetup to work!

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sudo losetup /dev/loop0 floppy.img
sudo mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
sudo cp src/kernel /mnt/kernel
sudo umount /dev/loop0
sudo losetup -d /dev/loop0

This script is ofcourse for his tutorial series but with the code I gave you earlier you could write them together and work that way
Hope I was of any help!