I have it working. Though I couldn't use the installation system. I exited to DOS from the install disk and checked the partition table and format. The drive had a 2GB partition as C: formatted fat32. There was an extended partition with the rest of the drive. Then a logical partition as D:
I deleted all the partitions. Rebooted. Existed setup. Created a new partition 504MB. (Didn't show anything larger. I couldn't create a larger partition) Marked it active. Rebooted Existed Setup. Formatted the C: drive with /S Rebooted to the HDD. This worked! I then removed the CF card from the 386. Then copied the FREEDOS directory from a newer install along with the other files at the root to the CF card. Excluding KERNEL.SYS and COMMAND.COM I then moved the CF card back to the 386 and it all worked. So, something with the install process created partitions using the fill size of the drive but the BIOS can access the full size so it failed. What I find interesting is that when I manually ran fdisk I couldn't create anything larger than what was seen by the BIOS. This setup now matches my DOS 6.22 setup. Thanks for the help. On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 6:27 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 4:29 PM Jeremy Leonard via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > I reinstalled from floppy onto a 40MB IDE drive and this works. So it > > must be something to do with the CF card. The card works with MSDos. > > MS-DOS only sees it as a 504MB drive. I FDISK and format it and it > > works. Is there anything I can try with FreeDOS to get this working? > > I know others have had problems with real hardware systems built using > a CF card instead of a hard drive. I've seen people comment about that > on this list a while back - also on Twitter and Facebook. This problem > is sometimes (often?) the fault of the CompactFlash not doing a > perfect job of emulating or representing an IDE hard drive. When these > folks try the same system with a real hard drive, the problem does not > reappear. > > As Eric suggested, you could try installing FreeDOS on top of the > MS-DOS install (don't repartition, just reinstall) and that would > work. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Jeremy Leonard jere...@elite4god.com Cell: (517) 285-8309
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