Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). www.bootdisk.com try it with a MSDOS 622 or PCDOS disk and use its fdisk. There is some disagreement about partition marking between windows and linux and rumors that MickeyMouse will be changing again for some version of NTFS. So I would advise trying to cheat in this way. BTW there is now an Oreilly book on Knoppix and its tricks. Looked like a good toolkit to have just in case. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk
Hi: Thanks. I know all of these workarounds. The problem was an apparent bug in an older version of FreeDOS sys.com. Mark On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). www.bootdisk.com try it with a MSDOS 622 or PCDOS disk and use its fdisk. There is some disagreement about partition marking between windows and linux and rumors that MickeyMouse will be changing again for some version of NTFS. So I would advise trying to cheat in this way. BTW there is now an Oreilly book on Knoppix and its tricks. Looked like a good toolkit to have just in case. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk
Hello, all: Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). I just grabbed a Windows98SE boot disk, booted it from a USB floppy, and did a SYS C:. Rebooting (yes, using GAG) yielded a C: prompt and a functioning MS-DOS installation. Rebooted Windows and reformatted the partition. Booted the Beta9SR1 CD. Entered 1 1 2 to run FreeDOS. From the X:\whatever prompt, entered A:. Entered SYS C: DIR C: shows the files. (kernel.sys command.com). Rebooted. Got an error about being unable to find command.com. entered a:\command.com a:/ Got an error about C: being invalid and a prompt. Entered A:. A: looks like the hard disk partition which was booted. DIR C: and DIR D: fail. During boot, the kernel recogizes the two partitions on the hard drive as C: and D:, according to the messages that go by. Any ideas on the problem here? I've tried various times to use different versions of SYS, booting from floppy, etc., but have been unsuccessful. Obviously, this should boot correctly to a C: prompt. Mark Bailey --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
