At 06:44 AM 12/13/2004 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
This mean you use FAT1x boot sector (only boot.asm contains plain "FreeDOS") and it freezes somewhere after loading. Unfortunately, other printouts in this boot sector are commented (there _was_ no space), so there is unclear at which stage it (or kernel) freezes.
Okay, I fooled around with BOOT.ASM using NASM and got a workable boot sector for the flash drive if USB-ZIP is specified as boot device.
Basically the flash drive now boots up as a huge honking A: drive. Can't run USBASPI.SYS/DI1000DD.SYS in its CONFIG.SYS to remap the drive because everything gets terribly confused due to the drive letter changing while CONFIG.SYS is running. And then I have to manually input the COMMAND.COM location and parameters, plus go through a drive A: failed abort/retry/fail/ignore prompt a couple times. Which is too much trouble to get the flash drive off of A:.
But I can probably live with it booting up and living as A:. As long as nothing makes assumptions about how big that drive can be.
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