Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Michael:
Thanks again for your help. I have now found a link on
how to format a stick as either a superfloppy or
with an MBR. It does this from Linux, but I begin
to understand what is happening. Linux devices I get.
Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
If you don't have a low-level disk editor of some type, you can either
use Bart's utilities' MKBT to read a boot disk image from the flash disk
and examine it for a valid partition information etc., or you can use
DEBUG's
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Very interesting. I am a naive user here. How do I
tell if my USB sticks are formatted as floppies or
hard drives?
If you don't have a low-level disk editor of some type, you can either use
Bart's utilities' MKBT to read a boot disk image from t
Hi Michael:
Very interesting. I am a naive user here. How do I
tell if my USB sticks are formatted as floppies or
hard drives? Is this a function of FreeDOS or
WindowsXP format? All my sticks have an MBR
in the first 512 bytes. Are you saying that
yours do not?
Also, what is the "media byte"
At 11:15 AM 2/23/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
My BIOS on THIS computer auto-detects the USB stick and
presents the boot option as: USB-HDD0: ...
Okay, I figured out what was going on with my computer. No errors in the
kernel, although the build setup needs a couple of minor tweaks to
su
Michael Devore wrote:
At 08:49 PM 2/22/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
...
I'm going to try to muster sufficient time and brainpower to look the
offending partition-related source code over Thursday or Friday.
Subject to actual work and real-life interruptions, of course.
Anybody else wan
Hello, again, all:
My BIOS on THIS computer auto-detects the USB stick and
presents the boot option as: USB-HDD0: ...
MS-DOS boots fine to a C:\> prompt from the stick and
correctly maps the two 500MB partitions. It does not
see the other partitions at all.
Hope this helps. I'll be glad to
At 08:49 PM 2/22/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Hello, all:
OK, I have arrived at home with the same 128MB memory stick. Prepared
just like Michael stated...development kernel, format 0.91V, etc..
I stuck it in the compaq computer I have at home and rebooted.
I'm going to try to muster suffi
OK, I can make this machine boot from the FreeDOS installation
on the hard drive...I believe it is the kernel from Beta9SR2 at
the moment...I get a new error, but it correctly identifies all the
partitions, boots to the correct one as C:, and can see them all,
even the stick:
The interesting part
Hello, all:
OK, I have arrived at home with the same 128MB memory stick. Prepared
just like Michael stated...development kernel, format 0.91V, etc..
I stuck it in the compaq computer I have at home and rebooted.
The interesting things are as follows:
WARNING: partition Pri:1 FS 06 has CHS =
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