On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the > second partition as Active. I did all this using the tools provided in the > FreeDOS CD. After partitioning and rebooting, I proceeded with the > installation of FreeDOS to the second partition. I must say the installer > didn't like the partition I created, showed lots of errors and offered to > recreate the partition (this happened every single time I did the > installation, and that's at least 10 times...). I agreed with the > installer's suggestion, the partition was recreated and the process > continued. At some point I could read "Syntax error" (white letters at the > top left on an empty blue screen) during the installation. That happened, > again, every single time I tried installing, but it didn't seem to affect > the whole procedure.
There could be a boot to boot partition "geometry" inconsistency impact described here, also maybe influenced or caused by VE-300 emulation firmware when using it. Common geometries are: CHS: * 255 63 (mostly used with desktop system BIOS) CHS: * 240 63 (mostly used with laptop system BIOS, but often also Compaq desktops) MiB cyl: * 64 32 (required for maximum performance for 4k sector aka "advanced format" HDs) I've never tried to put any portion of a bootable DOS partition above 8GB. I don't know if it's possible, and even if it is possible to place it more than 32G (or even 8G) from the front of a HD, it may require * 255 63 or * 240 63 partitioning geometry to reach it. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
