Actually my F: drive from Windows XP's point of view is on a separate physical drive. It's a 1 GB FAT disk that I salvaged from a disposed-of computer. I cleared mostly everything off of it and then tried to install FreeDOS on it. Of course FreeDOS when booted from the CD wants to use my C: disk's FAT32 system recovery partition. I don't know how to hide it from FreeDOS without making XP forget about it too, and I do not want to lose my system recovery capabilities.
When I set my boot manager to boot this other disk (F: in windows), it seems to start considering it drive C: as evidenced by the message I get at startup. However, it then issues two IO errors (>1023 cylinders) and dies in a flood Invalid Opcode errors, as I've discussed in several posts now. I have been told not having a floppy drive makes current FreeDOS go crazy with drive lettering. Is this why I'm getting C:/D: under one configuration and D:/C: under another? It makes little sense to me, but then all I ever did with DOS was run games and write QBasic programs, not rearrange hard drives :/ Is there any way to fix this "too many cylinders" problem, or am I stuck booting from the CD? Note that my BIOS won't allow me to change the CMOS settings for the disk size. Is FDISK or format capable of changing this? Also, I really find it odd that an IO error should cause invalid opcodes to execute. It'd be better to halt the system at the point of an unrecoverable error, I'd think, than to try to continue only to get those results. James Haley >From: "Lester Vedrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden? >Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:05:47 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Originating-IP: 209.183.19.210 >Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by >bay0-mc3-f2.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 5 >Jun 2006 07:07:25 -0700 >Received: from sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net (unknown [10.3.1.94])by >sc8-sf-spam2.sourceforge.net (Postfix) with ESMTPid AFE58F52D; Mon, 5 Jun >2006 07:07:05 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from sc8-sf-list2-b.sourceforge.net >([10.3.1.8]helo=sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net)by >sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43)id >1FnFjT-0003Q5-5Yfor freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 >07:07:03 -0700 >Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net >([10.3.1.91]helo=mail.sourceforge.net)by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with >esmtp (Exim 4.30)id 1FnFjR-0005eq-SSfor freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net; >Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:07:01 -0700 >Received: from webmail-outgoing2.us4.outblaze.com >([205.158.62.67]helo=webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com)by >mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1FnFjH-0002Og-T6for >freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:06:55 -0700 >Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.8.90])by >webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with QMQP idF34EE18001A1 for ><freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>;Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:06:33 +0000 (GMT) >Received: by ws5-11.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001)id >3C1A5CA0A7; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:05:48 +0000 (GMT) >Received: from [209.183.19.210] by ws5-11.us4.outblaze.com with http >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:05:47 -0500 >X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt2l/Qqgk1rd/5LS+uz2dZ+ZkBepuvrzeKI= >X-OB-Received: from unknown (192.168.9.232)by 192.168.8.90; 5 Jun 2006 >14:05:48 -0000 >X-Originating-Server: ws5-11.us4.outblaze.com >X-Spam-Score: 0.5 (/) >X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net.See >http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.Report problems >tohttp://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=2000010.5 >FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS From: ends in numbers >X-BeenThere: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 >Precedence: list >List-Id: <freedos-user.lists.sourceforge.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user>, ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Archive: ><http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=freedos-user> >List-Post: <mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: ><https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user>,<mailto:[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jun 2006 14:07:27.0035 (UTC) >FILETIME=[602250B0:01C688A9] > >LV> - Drive -, NTFS, primary, hidden, Windows XP >LV> - Drive -, NTFS, primary, hidden, Windows 2000 >LV> - Drive C, FAT32, primary, active, FreeDOS > >Eric> Why would you make the ntfs drives hidden? DOS will not use them >anyway... > >This is just an example of the most straightforward configuration (I think) >for a poster who doesn't seem to have much experience with multi-boot >systems. NTFS partitions in the above example could of course remain >"visible" because FreeDOS will simply ignore any partition with a file >system other than FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32. > >Arkady> You can have 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partitions and >one extended partition with any quantity of logical partitions. > >Thanks, Arkady for correcting my original message. I should have read it >twice before posting. > >Lester > > >-- >_______________________________________________ >Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: >Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com > >Powered by Outblaze > > >_______________________________________________ >Freedos-user mailing list >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
