help required urgently

[digvijay]

i have created a virtual floppy with letter 'A' and formatted it from vfd control panel.

my asm file is boot1.asm and it is as follows
************************boot1.asm**********************
org 0x7c00
bits 16

Start:

cli
hlt

times 510 - ($-$$) db 0

dw 0xAA55
*******************************************************
now i have used nasm to make it a .bin file as follows

c:\nasm>nasm -f bin boot1.asm -o boot1.bin


now when i use partcopy from my nasm directory using the following command
c:\nasm>partcopy boot1.bin 0 200 A

it creates a file nammed 'A' in my nasm directory

after that I start bochs from my bochs directory and make the following bochsrc.txt file

*************************bochsrc.txt********************
romimage: file=BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xe0000
vgaromimage: file=VGABIOS-lgpl-latest

floppya: 1_44=b:, status=inserted

log: OSDev.log
error: action=report
info: action=report
******************************************************

my BIOS-bochs-latest file is 128kb so the address given is 0xe0000

after looding this .txt file and starting simulation, bochs shows
******************************************************
boot failed:could not read the boot disk

fatal:no bootable device
******************************************************
how do I handle this

[bassman7689]

instead of putting 'A' in your part copy command you need to use this command.

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partcopy Boot1.bin 0 200 -f0

NOTE: This command is only for if you are using vfd for your A drive.