FozzTexx on Nostr: Got the 2G CF card to boot! I used qemu with an image of the 40MB drive and a blank ...
Got the 2G CF card to boot! I used qemu with an image of the 40MB drive and a blank 2GB disk image with the exact same number of bytes as the actual CF card. From the 40MB drive I was able to fdisk and sys it, but couldn't set the partition active. I mounted the 2GB image using qemu-nbd and let Linux fdisk make the partition active. Booted the 2GB image in qemu and so I used ddrescue (I like the progress info) to put on CF and it booted in T5200! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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