Joerg Bartels wrote:
>
> I have a big Problem with my 2nd hd. I tryed Mulinux
> on umsdos on that hd
I tried MuLinux a year ago and found it unreliable.
Perhaps it has improved?
> After a systemcrash of that Linux (yes, you can crash
> Linux badly :( )
Yes, indeed, MuLinux crashed on me several times.
But don't blame Linux for these. MuLinux strives
for quantity, not quality.
> I deltree that Linux from DR-DOS. I tryed
> to reinstall it but it breaks with VFS: Can�t find
> a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 16:01
> UMSDOS Beta 0.6 Compatibility level 0.4,fast msdos
This looks bad. I'm guessing that your MuLinux crash
left a pointer misaligned, and the deltree ran riot.
> Under Linux that hd is hdc1, i tryed BasicLinux but
> it could not mount that hd saying the same. dmesg from
> BasicLinux says: hda: hda1
> hdc: [PTBL] [528/32/63] hdc1
Try fdisk /dev/hdc. 'p' will show you the partition
table. Does it still have a DOS filesystem on it?
> fdisk from DR-DOS says:
>
> No Drive Start End Mb Status Type
> 1 D: 0 526 518 A PRI DOS, FAT16B (Big
> DOS >
> 32 MB
> and my BIOS says:
>
> IDE Adapter 1Master (D: 545)
> Type User 545 Mb
> Cylinders 1057
> Heads 16
> Sectors/Track 63
> Write Precomp None
> Multi-Sector Transfers [16 Sectors]
Strange. BIOS shows 545meg, but DR-DOS shows 518.
BIOS shows 1057 cylinders, but DR-DOS shows 526.
Is this a big-harddrive issue?
Perhaps you should have a wander through your HDD
with showfat, diskedit or some other program that
displays the sector contents.
Cheers,
Steven
