Writing a bootsector.bin file to a USB sector 1

[Kammce]

I have seen many tutorials on how to do this in windows using downloadable programs, but I have no idea how to do this in Ubuntu. I assume it is the same in ever other variant of Linux but I just wanted to note that I am using Ubuntu 10.04LTS.

My main purpose for this is to write the 8086emu Micro-OS-Loader (Cylinder 0, head 0, Sector 1) and Micro-OS-Kernel (Cylinder 0, head 0, Sector 2) to a USB flash disk to test to see if it boots up or not. I could do this in Windows, but I want to know how to do this in Linux so I am not dependent on using Windows in order to write my Operating system's data on my USB.

If you need additional information on the system I am using, just ask and I will edit the first post.

Thank you for your help.

[Mudgen]

The flash disk should show up as a /dev device, probably /dev/sdb or whatever letter is next after what's already there before you connect it. You'd use dd to write the sectors. Look at "man dd" and see the "if", "of", "bs", "count", "seek", and "skip" options. You sound clueful enough to work it out from there.

[alf55]

dd bs=512 count=1 if=YOURSOURCEFILENAMEGOSHERE of=/dev/sdX

where "/dev/asX" is the correct device for your USB device.

[Mudgen]

dd bs=512 count=1 if=YOURSOURCEFILENAMEGOSHERE of=/dev/sdX

where "/dev/asX" is the correct device for your USB device.

If the other assumptions in that are correct, I think Kammce will want count=2.

[alf55]

Yes, the count would be "2", if you "sector" really was "block" or that the loader is 1024 bytes long.

[Mudgen]

The OP specifically says he needs two sectors, 1 and 2.

[Rubberman]

Whether count=1 or count=2 depends upon whether or not the input data is in one file or two. If one file, then this should work

dd bs=512 count=2 if=filename of=/dev/sdX

if two files, then this should work:

dd bs=512 count=1 if=filename1 of=/dev/sdX
dd bs=512 count=1 if=filename2 of=/dev/sdX seek=1