Perhaps.I know it booted to my harddrive two months ago.Why wouldn't it work now?Hm.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > > I've tried everything.I ran format /s,I ran Fdisk,I've made the harddrive > > bootable.But when I go to boot into the harddrive,my laptop just > restarts. > > There are various pretty technical reasons that could cause this: > BIOS and DOS disagreeing about geometry when you run SYS or FORMAT > versus when you boot, use of CHS geometry versus LBA mode, use of > different BIOS drive numbers when using SYS versus when booting... > > The latter could even go as far as 00 (A) versus 80 (C), or it can > be a smaller difference such as 80 versus 81 (different "harddisk" > numbers). You can use SYS with the CONFIG option to patch kernels > to disable LBA or to force the use of LBA and to enable or disable > whether drive assignments are shown. With my sys-freedos.pl Perl > script for Linux (requires NASM to be installed, sys-freedos-linux > is the name of the zip download), you can and have to manipulate > the geometry, drive number and whether LBA should be used. As this > is not user friendly at all, I would only recommend this if your > technical curiosity motivates you sufficiently to try various of > the possible settings :-) > > Maybe somebody could provide you with a boot sector which displays > the current drives and their properties, that would be nice for > diagnostic checks instead of actual booting. Likewise, maybe some > tool can be recommended to display a list of drives and properties > at the time when you would normally run SYS, for comparison? > > Note that both the partition table (of both USB sticks and normal > harddisks and SSD etc.) and information in the DOS boot sector of > a partition can make statements about geometry and the latter also > (optionally, I believe) about the expected BIOS drive number... > > I hope this helps with further investigations :-) > > Regards, Eric > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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