Hi Eric:
OK, let's try again. I apologize profusely for the HTML
formatting...I hate it myself. The darned webmail
client decided I wanted it for some reason.
The original post I sent was the output of FDISK from
booting Beta9SR1. The first time, no complaints.
Current fixed disk drive: 1 (TC: 3648 TH: 254 TS: 63)
Partition Status Mbytes Description Usage Start Cyl End Cyl
1 20 16 Hidden FAT16 0% 0 1
3 7 A 27980 NTFS 98% 16 3582
C: 4 6 494 FAT16 2% 3584 3646
I must have erred in capturing the MBR before I started.
(See MBR.TXT attached). The resulting MBR is NEWMBR1.TXT
and I'm sure that's right...cause I went and redid it when it
didn't look like the original.
Recall that the first time I booted Beta9SR1 it ran fine.
When I tried to boot the new kernel, it complained and
then Beta9SR1 complained. It appears that either simply
booting one of these, or more likely, running
fdisk, did change the partition table.
Is THIS plain text?
Mark
>
> Hi (your last mail to the -user list was in html, oops),
> FreeDOS is right to complain here: There is an official
> partition type for FAT16 LBA, but you have a partition
> which is marked as FAT16 CHS while at the same time reaching
> beyond the 1024 cylinders that CHS can reach! WinXP seems
> to just ignore the problem. FreeDOS shows a warning and tries
> to ignore the problem, too, but somehow crashes.
>
> Partition Status Mbytes Description Usage Start Cyl End Cyl
> 1 20 16 Hidden FAT16 0% 0 1
> 3 7 A 27980 NTFS 98% 16 3582
> C: 4 6 494 FAT16 2% 3584 3646
> ---- ---- start/end cyl are > 1023
>
> WARNING: partition Pri: 4 FS 06 has CHS:3584-0-1 not 1023-254-63
> WARNING: partition Pri: 4 FS 06 has CHS:3546-254-63, not 1023-254-63
> 3646, I assume?
>
> WARNING: partition Pri: 4 FS 06 is not LBA
>
> Please run FDISK to correct this - using LBA to access partition
> start 3584-0-1, end 3646-254-63
> C:HD1, Pri [ 4], CHS: 3584-0-1, start=28113 MB, size=494 MB
>
> Those messages are far too verbose if you ask me! It would have been
> enough to show only:
> Partition should be marked as LBA, use FDISK to correct this:
> start 3584-0-1, end 3646-254-63
> C:HD1, Pri [ 4], CHS: 3584-0-1, start=28113 MB, size=494 MB
>
> This would already contain all required information (you can
> add, optionally, the overall drive geometry to the
> start 3584-0-1, end 3646-254-63
> line).
>
>
>
> Would be nice if Jeremy could reduce the error message verbosity here :-)
>
> PS: This is NOT a smoking gun. Your partition table is wrong,
> but in a "mild" way, which WinXP fixes silently and which FreeDOS
> complains about. Nothing caused by FDISK, though.
>
> ("fixes" as in "assumes the right value" - WinXP does not fix the data
> on disk. Actually MS FDISK is SO "caring" / crazy that if you create a
> FAT16 partition but format it with a FAT32 filesystem, their FDISK will
> pretend that the partition table would show the correct FAT32 value...)
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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