How to boot in vmware?

Question

I came across these two lines in osdev wiki.

 nasm kernel.asm -f bin -o kernel.bin
    dd if=kernel.bin of=/dev/fd0

It copies the kernel binary to a flopy. Does this means the flopy becomes bootable? I don't want to create a bootable flopy , instead of that I want to create a iso image by which I can boot in vmware. is it possible? If possible , how to do it? Kindly explain with description. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Kernel.bin is a bootloader, and the first sector of a 1.44mb floppy disk is the boot sector.

So when you write (using dd in this case) it serially writes the data to the first sector onwards.

From my experience, look up qEmu. I don't have it to hand, but you can boot bootloaders using that perfectly without converting to img or iso.