On Thursday, March 5, 2020, 06:05:49 p.m. EST, Dan Schmidt wrote> … “I would create a *2GB* boot partition and format it FAT16, and install> FreeDOS to it. My recollection is that FAT32 support was a work in> progress in FreeDOS when real development ended.” > … > “I think your fundamental problem is that FreeDOS cannot successfully> boot from a 7.8GB partition formatted as FAT32. It may be able to> access other larger partitions formatted FAT32 and seen by DOS as D:,> E: or the like, once FreeDOS *is* booted, but it cannot boot *from*> one.” … I tried this ↑ first – used GParted again to either rule it out or not as the issue, resized my C: partition (flagged as bootable) to 2GB, formatted it as FAT16 [This time it put 1.99 MiB unallocated ahead of it], and re‑installed FreeDOS from the DVD: same results. No biggie though; I don’t need more than 2GB anyway, so I’ll just leave it this size.· On Thursday, March 5, 2020, 06:05:49 p.m. EST, Dan Schmidt wrote:> “Try the utilities fdisk and format, I've not had any luck using Gparted to make anything FreeDos can reliably read.”, On Thursday, March 5, 2020, 07:46:09 p.m. EST, Matej Horvat wrote:>… “I installed it manually with FDISK/FORMAT/SYS.” Next I tried using fdisk instead as suggested (↑,↑↑). I deleted the first partition, changed the display/entry units to cylinders, created a new partition located from cylinder 5 through cylinder 7669, formatted Partition 1 as FAT16 (option 6), set it as bootable, and made sure to write the table to disk before exiting. When I ran the FreeDOS install again after that, it wanted to to format again (first time it’s asked to do that – I’ve run the install several times now) so I guess I might’ve chosen the wrong FAT16 option? [GParted was detecting the filesystem type as unknown when I checked it before logging‑out of Arch Linux & shutting‑down] I typed “Yes” and it went ahead and supposedly formatted the partition as FAT32. When I checked it later however, it was showing‑up as FAT16 in both fdisk & GParted (which wasn’t showing it as anything before – weird), but bootable… restarted and STILL I get the black screen with cursor blinking. · On Friday, March 6, 2020, 01:31:53 p.m. EST, Louis Santillan wrote:> “As Matej mentioned, don't forget to ‘sys c:’ before rebooting after the install.” I did not do that ↑. I ran the live disk again after and typed “sys c:” from the prompt (this is when I discovered the filesystem was FAT16 when the installation process via DVD had said it was reformatting as FAT32, as mentioned above^^). Should it matter? Do I need to try the installation again? Partition is showing as bootable. · On Friday, March 6, 2020, 01:36:34 p.m. EST, Jerome Shidel wrote:> “It is possible that the MBR contains incompatible boot code.> There are ways to force update it.> On FreeDOS 1.2 there was a ZAPMBR.BAT that would do that. I think it is also included on 1.3-RC2. > I don’t recommend using it on a multi-boot system.” ↑ What if it’s one that’s *going* to be one, but FreeDOS is the first thing I’m installing? Could running that cause any harm? The hard drive I’m using is brand‑spanking‑new. FreeDOS is the first OS I (am trying to) put on this one. When I ran GParted the first time, it gave the an MS‑DOS/MBR layout, which came‑up as the default choice. · Obviously I’m doing something wrong here. :P
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