[Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions

[Dave Yeo]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:19:25 -0800, Steven Levine wrote:

>Hi Dave,
>
>>As far as I know sysinstx just updates a pointer to point to the location
>>of the kernel. Not sure if the pointer is in the MBR or where. The warp
>>v4 one should work though I have never tested.
>
>Not quite.  Sysinstx is just a wrapper that determines the filesystem type
>and calls the proper entry point in the selected U*FS.DLL.  This entry
>point writes the boot loader to the first track of the volume and writes
>os2boot to disk.
>
>This data is pretty much constant for a given filesystem type.

I was thinking of FAT where there is no U*FS.DLL. The first track of
the volume would load the kernel. With HPFS I can format a drive and
xcopy everything there and usually the volume will boot.
Dave