Hello, all: OK. I'm trying a different experiment, and a more methodical one. (I have a different computer and a different USB stick). I am using the HP Utility SP27213. This utility detects whether you have files named kernel.sys/command.com in the directory you point it at or msdos.sys/io.sys/command.com.
If I run the utility, instruct it to format the USB stick and use MSDOS files, it does so and the resulting USB stick boots under MSDOS and runs fine. No problems. If I run the utility, instruct it to format the USB stick and use FreeDOS development (February 14, 2006) files, FreeDOS boots to a C:\> prompt all right, but a "dir c:" shows me the files from an extended FAT32 partition on my hard disk, not the USB stick! The MBR's in these two cases are identical except for some so-called "magic bytes" at 01b8-a which are some sort of Windows timestamp. The boot sectors are not the same...not even close. The HP utility obviously knows about the FreeDOS kernel and applies an appropriate boot sector. The partition type on the USB stick is type 14 (decimal), WIN95 DOS 16-Bit FAT, LBA-mapped. Any suggestions on how I can debug this? Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
