OK. Back to the standard development kernel. config.sys still has himem.exe and emm386.exe. No autoexec.bat.
Boot floppy without running FDISK. Reboot Linux. Partition table normal. Copy it to the floppy this time! :-) Reboot FreeDOS from floppy. <enter> <enter> A:> fdisk Displays a bunch of garbage after (Y/N). No [Y], no characters I can find on my keyboard. Try <ESC>...advances to next screen...garbage after Enter choice: Try <ESC>...back to prompt. Reboot...I didn't like the looks of that. This looked normal. A:> fdisk [Y] <return> [4] <return> No partitions defined. Restore the disk partition again. I suppose I could check and make sure that it's emm386 instead of himem, but I hope this gives y'all enough information to debug this. I also DO NOT feel like trying this on any of my other computers! Meanwhile, personally, I don't recommend using FreeDOS FDISK! :-( Mark > Hello, all: > > OK, on my "haunted" HP laptop, I am going to try another test. > I just ran the Linux FDISK...it warns: > > "The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3648. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > ... > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > It seems to work. > > > I have now created what I believe to be the simplest > possible FreeDOS boot floppy: > > I downloaded the development kernel, command.com, and > sys.com from www.fdis.org/kernel. Ran sys.com from WindowsXP > and copied the FDISK.exe file from the Beta9SR1 CD into the > root directory. > > Booting the resulting floppy (on a USB floppy drive). > > FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.35w (Build 2035w-UNSTABLE, Jul 20 2005) > > [...] > > Warning: partition Pri:1 FS 04 has CHS= 2-11-8, not 1-254-63 > C: HD1, Pri [ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, start= 0 MB, size=16 MB > WARNING: partition Pri:4 FFS 06 is not LBA > Please run FDISK to correct this - using LBA to access partition. > start 3584-0-1, end 3646-254-63 > D: HD1, Pri[ 4], CHS= 3584-0-1, start=28113MB, size = 494 MB > > [...] > > Enter new date (mm-dd-[cc]yy): > > OK, this looks OK. Reboot Linux and run their FDISK again. > Still looks normal: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System > /dev/hda1 1 3 16384 4 FAT16 > <32M > /dev/hda3 * 17 3584 28657936 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda4 3585 3647 506047+ 6 FAT16 > > Reboot haunted HP again. > > Enter returns at date/time prompt. Get to A:> prompt. > > Reboot Linux and check fdisk. (Booting Linux from CD). > > Linux fdisk shows the same. > > Reboot FreeDOS. Return at date and time prompts. > > a:> fdisk > [...] > Do you want to use large disk (FAT32) support (Y/N).[Y] <return> > > Free FDISK Version 1.3.0 DEBUG > > Enter choice: [4] <return> > > Damn. Appeared to work. Shows a reasonable table. <ESC> <ESC> > > Reboot Linux and check. Fine. > > Reboot floppy several times with no problems. > > Replace kernel with DEBUG kernel from the same page. > > Reboot. FDISK still normal. :-( > > OK. Go and download emmx204.zip and copy emm386.exe and himem.exe > to the floppy. > > Create a config.sys on the floppy: > > device=a:\himem.sys > device=a:\emm386.exe noems x=test memcheck vds > > A:> fdisk > ... [Y] <RETURN> > [4] <RETURN> > > BOOM! FDISK reports "NO PARTITIONS DEFINED" > > Now, that's interesting... > > Mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
