[Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions

[Steven Levine]

In <19740414223344.115C19023C2377C3 at priv-edtnaa04.telusplanet.net>, on
02/17/09
   at 08:53 PM, "Dave Yeo" <daveryeo at telus.net> said:

Hi,

>I was thinking of FAT where there is no U*FS.DLL.

This is packaging.  The entry points are within the kernel, as is the case
for the rest of the FAT IFS logic.

>The first track of the
>volume would load the kernel.

Sorta.

>With HPFS I can format a drive and xcopy
>everything there and usually the volume will boot.

This is true are all the bootable IFS's.  The format logic writes the
bootloader and the xcopy installs/restores os2ldr and os2boot.

Steven

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