I wouldn't think the LBA aware type would have kept your system from
booting. I thought that only affected Win9x and IFS driver.
Glad you got it working anyways.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Paul Dufresne <dufres...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What exact partition i.d. is your FAT? Perhaps it needs to be LBA
> >aware (0xC)? I don't remember offhand.
> Yes, looks like you found the problem.
> I changed it in Linux, from b (W95 FAT32) to c (W95 FAT32 LBA).
> Then tried to boot my partition (that is now in GRUB since I just
> installed a Linux to the side of FreeDOS).
> It did not worked better than before. [just blinking cursor]
> But then I rebooted with my FreeDOS FDI-USB beta key, and ran fdisk.
> There I now saw (W95 FAT32 L[BA was missing].
> I DID NOT SAW ANY WAY TO CHANGE THE TYPE OF THE PARTITION IN FreeDOS
> FDISK!!
> So I reinstalled over.
> Was happy this time that fdisk or setup did not try to install it's
> own MBR so not to break my Linux Grub.
> And that time it boots fine.
>
> Looks like FreeDOS FDISK use type b when using FAT32, but should use
> type c to enable LBA!!
>
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