Luis.F.Correia wrote:
Boot DOS from a floppy,
type fdisk /mbr
Bingo. As a couple of you kindly suggested,
dos 6.22 fdisk /mbr works when fdisk itself
doesn't always successfully overwrite leftover
bytes in the mbr.
I think I originally fdisked and formatted that CF
in Win98, leading to these problems.
FWIW:
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1) I had previously tried using the BIOS ide detect feature
on the CF card. It returned two possible drive types, one
was identical to how linux sees the drive, as
CHS=490/8/32, normal
and the other was the more modern style:
CHS=62/32/63, LBA
2) I had tried both modes. Nogo.
3) Only after fdisk /mbr does it work.
4) I did have A,C booting in my BIOS always.
5) I had tried FAT12, FAT16 <32M, FAT16 >32M, all with partition
sizes ranging from 10MB to 60MB.
6) Currently running CF as: Primary Master, alone on bus.
LBA mode, C,H,S, all specifically set.
BIOS auto selecting PIO Mode 1
DOS-6.22 fdisk /MBR
fdisk a primary dos partition, 12MB
make it active
reboot and format c: /s
reboot to the CF and see dos appear.
reboot to LEAF and mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
rm /mnt/*
umount /mnt
syslinux -s /dev/hda1
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /a
cp /a/*lrp syslinux* linux /mnt
umount /a
vi /mnt/syslinux.cfg (to set it to use hda1)
umount /mnt
reboot joy.
ymmv,
Matt
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