Hi Ranieri, > now I am booting FreeDOS from a FAT16 partition taking only the > last cylinder of the HD (8 MB). Perhaps I should start over with a > cleaner setup.
If your disk is more than 8 GB, the last cylinder cannot be reached without LBA anyway, so FORCELBA should not make a difference. However, FORCELBA should help you to boot from USB flash drives where the geometry is sometimes ambiguous because they do not actually have any :-) But 8 MB is very small even for DOS, I would suggest 50 MB or even 250 MB: Gives you some space to play with DOS and is not really a noticeable loss for other OSes anyway. You could use e.g. GPARTED (from a boot CD/DVD/USB maybe) to resize partitions but make sure to fully shut down other operating systems first - do not resize while a system is just hibernating. > The pendrive partiton is type 0c. I also tried MSDOS 7.1 from a > Grub4dos-mapped floppy image and it recognizes the pendrive, So if I understand correctly, grub4dos and the floppy image are also on the USb stick from which you boot? I somehow do wonder what is D: then - the last-8-MB harddisk partition? Or something on the stick? Is the floppy image A: and the rest of the stick C:? Then you could boot from the bulk of the stick instead, without a floppy image, using grub4dos or syslinux or similar. > dir d:\ returns the correct list. I uploaded the 1st MB of > the partition in case anyone is interested. > http://www.box.net/shared/56e5ojjvhx7i2n6tkgr3 The first MB of the partition on the stick? On harddisk? Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
