[Freedos-kernel] Thank you Lucho, Greg, et. al.

2004-02-10 Thread Martin Bogomolni
very appreciated! -Martin Bogomolni --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn

RE: [Freedos-kernel] Installing FreeDOS on a FAT32 partition >1024 Cyl...

2004-02-05 Thread Martin Bogomolni
Before I get flamed... (caught my typo too late. -sigh-) MiB (Mibibyte/Mebibyte) == 2^20 bytes KiB (Kibibyte/Kebibyte) == 2^10 bytes -Martin --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Installing FreeDOS on a FAT32 partition >1024 Cyl...

2004-02-05 Thread Martin Bogomolni
+ (GMT) Subject: Re: [Freedos-kernel] Installing FreeDOS on a FAT32 partition >1024 Cyl... > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Martin Bogomolni wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=63 (kill trk0) > > fdisk the system to make a 16MiB partition on /dev/hda1, filesystem type

RE: [Freedos-kernel] Installing FreeDOS on a FAT32 partition >1024 Cyl...

2004-02-05 Thread Martin Bogomolni
Roberto : > > In Linux --> > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=63 (kill trk0) > > fdisk the system to make a 16MiB partition on /dev/hda1, > > filesystem type 0x0b > > Are you creating a 16 _megabyte_ FAT32 partition? > Or a 16 _gigabyte_ one? MiB (MibiBytes = 1000 KibiBytes (a ki

[Freedos-kernel] Installing FreeDOS on a FAT32 partition >1024 Cyl...

2004-02-05 Thread Martin Bogomolni
Hey all, I am building an embedded FreeDOS based system, with a custom boot manager in the MBR area of the primary disk. I have seen a boot loader (boot32ea.asm) that the author claims can boot a FreeDOS partition beyond the 8GiB/1024 Cyl limit. However, to start with I have been experiment