Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation
Never mind, I did read it good this time. :) Not very good in reading today. I thought that you where saying you didn"t know if you should do it. Now I read you just want more information about where/what you should do. Reading good is recommended, especially for me. :D Sorry, Maarten -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: "Maarten Vermeulen" Verzonden: 28-12-2015 21:53 Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Onderwerp: RE: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation I think you just need to do that, then we look if it is good to use it etc. I think (and hope). :) Maarten Van: Antony Gordon Verzonden: 28-12-2015 17:18 Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation Hi, Since I still have the Borland Compilers in my VMs, I can take over FDISK if needed. I can try to re-work it to work with OW. Let me know a time frame for completion so if I take it, I don't drag the project out. -T On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM Paul Dufresne wrote: I have encountered a little bit similar problem that is not really one, but looks like one. That was with testing the new installer floppy image, with a freshly created disk of 100Mb, and all_cd.iso under QEMU. After fdisk had created the partition, the virtual system reboot. After reboot, the system BIOS (SeaBIOS) was telling me it could not start the system because the 0x55,0xAA signature of the MBR was not there. At first I considered it an error of the FDISK, but soon realized that if it was "fixed" the situation would be worst, because it would try to boot the MBR that was invalid. And indeed, adding a partition, I don't expect the MBR to be touched. So the real problem was me not giving the boot order... I need to tell it to boot the floppy disk in priority...which fixed the problem. Now it has come to my mind that the installer could install a MBR that would force to boot fhe floppy, but somehow it does not feels a so good idea. Later, reading fdisk history, I did read that fdisk was changed not to install a MBR by default and modified the 0x55, 0xAA signature. Which seems right to me after some thinking. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel-- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation
I think you just need to do that, then we look if it is good to use it etc. I think (and hope). :) Maarten -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: "Antony Gordon" Verzonden: 28-12-2015 17:18 Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation Hi, Since I still have the Borland Compilers in my VMs, I can take over FDISK if needed. I can try to re-work it to work with OW. Let me know a time frame for completion so if I take it, I don't drag the project out. -T On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM Paul Dufresne wrote: I have encountered a little bit similar problem that is not really one, but looks like one. That was with testing the new installer floppy image, with a freshly created disk of 100Mb, and all_cd.iso under QEMU. After fdisk had created the partition, the virtual system reboot. After reboot, the system BIOS (SeaBIOS) was telling me it could not start the system because the 0x55,0xAA signature of the MBR was not there. At first I considered it an error of the FDISK, but soon realized that if it was "fixed" the situation would be worst, because it would try to boot the MBR that was invalid. And indeed, adding a partition, I don't expect the MBR to be touched. So the real problem was me not giving the boot order... I need to tell it to boot the floppy disk in priority...which fixed the problem. Now it has come to my mind that the installer could install a MBR that would force to boot fhe floppy, but somehow it does not feels a so good idea. Later, reading fdisk history, I did read that fdisk was changed not to install a MBR by default and modified the 0x55, 0xAA signature. Which seems right to me after some thinking. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel-- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation
Hi, Since I still have the Borland Compilers in my VMs, I can take over FDISK if needed. I can try to re-work it to work with OW. Let me know a time frame for completion so if I take it, I don't drag the project out. -T On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM Paul Dufresne wrote: > I have encountered a little bit similar problem that is not really > one, but looks like one. > That was with testing the new installer floppy image, with a freshly > created disk of 100Mb, and all_cd.iso under QEMU. > After fdisk had created the partition, the virtual system reboot. > After reboot, the system BIOS (SeaBIOS) was telling me it could not > start the system because the 0x55,0xAA signature of the MBR was not > there. > At first I considered it an error of the FDISK, but soon realized that > if it was "fixed" the situation would be worst, because it would try > to boot the MBR that was invalid. And indeed, adding a partition, I > don't expect the MBR to be touched. > So the real problem was me not giving the boot order... I need to tell > it to boot the floppy disk in priority...which fixed the problem. > Now it has come to my mind that the installer could install a MBR that > would force to boot fhe floppy, but somehow it does not feels a so > good idea. > > Later, reading fdisk history, I did read that fdisk was changed not to > install a MBR by default and modified the 0x55, 0xAA signature. Which > seems right to me after some thinking. > > > -- > ___ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
