Never mind, I did read it good this time. :)
Not very good in reading today. I thought that you where saying you didn"t know
if you should do it. Now I read you just want more information about where/what
you should do.
Reading good is recommended, especially for me. :D
Sorry,
Maarten
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Van: "Maarten Vermeulen" <netraa...@gmail.com>
Verzonden: 28-12-2015 21:53
Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Onderwerp: RE: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation
I think you just need to do that, then we look if it is good to use it etc. I
think (and hope). :)
Maarten
Van: Antony Gordon
Verzonden: 28-12-2015 17:18
Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation
Hi,
Since I still have the Borland Compilers in my VMs, I can take over FDISK if
needed. I can try to re-work it to work with OW. Let me know a time frame for
completion so if I take it, I don't drag the project out.
-T
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM Paul Dufresne <dufres...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have encountered a little bit similar problem that is not really
one, but looks like one.
That was with testing the new installer floppy image, with a freshly
created disk of 100Mb, and all_cd.iso under QEMU.
After fdisk had created the partition, the virtual system reboot.
After reboot, the system BIOS (SeaBIOS) was telling me it could not
start the system because the 0x55,0xAA signature of the MBR was not
there.
At first I considered it an error of the FDISK, but soon realized that
if it was "fixed" the situation would be worst, because it would try
to boot the MBR that was invalid. And indeed, adding a partition, I
don't expect the MBR to be touched.
So the real problem was me not giving the boot order... I need to tell
it to boot the floppy disk in priority...which fixed the problem.
Now it has come to my mind that the installer could install a MBR that
would force to boot fhe floppy, but somehow it does not feels a so
good idea.
Later, reading fdisk history, I did read that fdisk was changed not to
install a MBR by default and modified the 0x55, 0xAA signature. Which
seems right to me after some thinking.
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