Greg Did the gparted computer partition the CF card as GPT? I believe FreeDOS only recognizes MBR partitions.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:30 AM Greg Gerke via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I was having a similar problem during an install that I think might stem > from fdisk. I'm new to the mailing list so apologies in advance if this is > old news. > > I'd purchased an IDE2CF (from startech.com) and a 16GB CF card. The CF > card does show in the POST. I'm able to boot using the full CD install > image and when it gets to the part about partitioning the disk it says it's > not partitioned and asks to go ahead with it. I let it go, it asks for a > reboot, I answer "yes". > > But after the reboot it comes back and asks again about partitioning. > Granted, I'm guessing that FreeDOS and/or fdisk wasn't expecting this sort > of hardware so maybe this is yet another wrinkle? > > I did take the CF card and put it on another machine and (via gparted) > made four 2GB partitions and formatted them as FAT32. When I tried the > reinstall again it still comes up saying that the "disk" needs to be > partition though. > > I didn't try dropping to DOS and using the fdisk131 though to see if that > makes a difference; I'll give that a shot later. > > Thanks, > Greg > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Monday, January 4th, 2021 at 6:30 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > as I am referring to the BTTR thread, "both" versions means: > > > > > There are currently 2 binaries delivered in the fdisk package: > > > > > > - FDISK.EXE, version 1.2.1, dated 4/2003 > > > - FDISK131.EXE, version 1.3.1, dated 11/2008 > > > > See: > > > > https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=17440 > > > > Recent updates in the thread says that the error probably > > > > got triggered by FDISK rounding (instead of rounding up) > > > > partition starts to the nearest (instead of next) start of > > > > a cylinder. So if you have partitions made with other tools > > > > which do not end on a cylinder boundary, our FDISK can make > > > > the next partition at an OVERLAPPING position. > > > > This also seems to depend on fdisk config file contents and > > > > on whether the fdisk config file exists at all. One version > > > > (1.3.1) just utterly fails to work on Japheth's computer. > > > > Regards, Eric > > > > Freedos-user mailing list > > > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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