Hi Ranieri, try
SYS CONFIG KERNEL.SYS FORCELBA=1 after that SYS CONFIG KERNEL.SYS to list current option this will force the freedos kernel.sys to always use LBA and ignore CHS completely. Tom am 7. Juli 2011 um 15:41 schrieben Sie: > I'm really sorry, I admit my description was quite confusing. All of > this is not exactly a problem to me, I could just format the pendrive > with the desktop BIOS geometry 974/128/63 and be done with it. I am > just being stubborn, trying to understand if there is a technical > reason that FreeDOS refuses this convoluted setup, while the other > loaders accept it, even MS-DOS. The following is not in chronological > order. > I have created a tiny 8 MB partition in the end of the desktop's hard > disk. I can boot FreeDOS from there and I also have copied Grub4dos > files to this partition. > My pendrive has syslinux in the partition boot sector. I have copied > FreeDOS files to its root and tried to chainload into it. Only on the > notebook everything works fine, because it sees the same geometry as > in the MBR. On the desktop syslinux boots, I can chainload FreeDOS > kernel, there is the expected WARNING about geometry, but COMMAND.COM > cannot be found on the pendrive partition. I must point it to the copy > of COMMAND.COM on the hard drive partition. > When I load FreeDOS from the hard drive, the pendrive partition gets a > drive letter but I cannot list its contents correctly. From here I can > run Grub4dos on the hard disk, then in its command line I can list the > contents of the pendrive. I can also: > - chainload the pendrive boot sector to get syslinux boot prompt. Then > I use the chain.c32 module to > - load FreeDOS from the pendrive > - or chainload back into the hard drive partition. > Except for swapped partition letters and drive numbers, it is the > same as booting from the pendrive. > - memory-map a floppy image with FreeDOS. Same thing, pendrive inaccessible. > - memory-map a MS-DOS 7.1 floppy image. It can see the pendrive correctly. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards Tom Ehlert +49-241-79886 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
