Hi all,
I just tested the FreeDOS format on the big disk. IT WORKS FLAWLESSLY :)
the previous problem was due to a too old kernel. I used the one from
Rugxulo labeled as fat-security.
- Fdisk did everything as expected
SATA2 500Gb disk one 100% partition
- Format did everything as expected both in quick mode of surfece scan
Warning: Each FAT is 119208 sectors, > 16MB-64k, Win9x incompatible
FreeDOS goes well beyond old MS-DOS limits
- Disk booted normaly
- Machine is an Athlon X2 4400+ dual core, with 2Gb RAM. I may be that
this insane amount of memory (matches the insane size of the disk)
helped to avoid the reported "too big disk" message.
See more below...
>> 1) new disk was used with Linux, but a first primary partition was made
>> but never formated
>
> Make sure it is flagged as fat32 and as lba. Check possible
> messages from initdisk early during freedos boot as well.
>
> I recently tried making a DOS bootable partition on a new
> disk, too, and found: 1. I had to mimick a "fdisk /mbr"
> to make anything boot 2. I had to say my partition is LBA
> and bootable. 3. I had to tell sys-freedos-linux that the
> disk and offset are 255 (auto) and 63 (see fdisk -u -l in
> Linux) respectively as mkdosfs had failed to set those. I
> also told sys-freedos-linux to use LBA style boot sectors
> to avoid any geometry troubles but that was optional :-).
I did all the tests in FreeDOS, nothing else ... Normal use is with GRUB
which can handle all that without problem
>> 2) booted FreeDOS 1.0, and with fdisk deleted everything and creared
>> only one primary partition for the whole disk
> Why did you delete the partition and make a new one again?
> Same bugfix suggestions as for step 1.
I had used that same disk for other tests, including Ubuntu...
>> 3) rebooted
>> 4) fdisk /mbr (to remove grub)
>> 5) format c: /s /u
>
> Try without /s. Use the /d option to get debugging messages.
> Use the combination /q /u unless you insist on waiting for
> days until format completes. Really. So: FORMAT C: /Q /U /D
both /Q and /U worked as expected with new kernel :)
Thanks to all,
Alain
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/
_______________________________________________
Freedos-kernel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
