Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem
Johnson Lam wrote: You're right. I'm just want to TEST, to see if FreeDOS can work on Xeon server grade machine. It's works despite of few glitches. Yes, I've been testing it on XEONs and no problems as yet. Did you notice any other glitches other than the this? Out of interest, I think you said it would not boot? Can you explain the exact steps you used to tell it you wanted to be able to boot? I assume you were trying to actually boot the whole RAID5 array using the FreeDOS boot sector, the MBR from FreeDOS and the FreeDOS system files, is this correct? The server will install 2003Server soon, just want to try FreeDOS. Hmm, it might run faster on FreeDOS:) It's wise to Mirror the system only. It's fun to know our client put everything on the RAID, even the system. Yes, I think that's where a lot of people go wrong. 8Gb. Strangely, Dell latest BIOS's seem to be able to address large SCSI partitions without drivers, but I don't know how. Strange that FreeDOS can see the full size 140GB, but MS-DOS just 8GB This could well be a limitation with MS-DOS. There were certainly differences between MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK and the FDISK that ships with Win95/98/ME (FAT32 and large drives), but none of them are as nice as FreeDOS. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- 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=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:01, Bernd Blaauw any valid MBR starts with AA55, so if no AA55, FDISK /MBR might be done automatically. Am I correct, Eric? Any 'dump MBR to file' programs available so we could verify what the contents of MBR is on an empty (unpartitioned probably?) harddisk? You need a device copy program which allows direct access. I only know of one in linux called dd. IMHO it should be ported to Freedos also with dd_rescue for damaged disks. You can try it under knoppix.com or get a copy with book from Oreilly. Otherwise your stuck with payware AFAIK from Symmantec akd Norton Utilities. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:38, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 22-Июл-2005 10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: kn What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all programs, which use only 32-bit arithmetics and use plain old DOS functions (non-FAT32 aware) always will see 2 Gb free, even if there (on FAT32 partition) is more free space. CWI In crashing this machine I found that the extended is limited to 8gig If BIOS doesn't present INT13 extension functions - then yes, FreeDOS limited to 7.8 Gb. If those functions present in BIOS - then FreeDOS may access all disk space. CWI out of which you can carve up your logical partitions which share the CWI 2gig limit. Again: 2 Gb is a _FAT16_ limit. FAT32 limited to 2 _Tb_. Legacy windows / PCdos2000 is what I have for a legacy app of two. Tricky but do-able since I started with Suse 7.0 and kept copies of fstab . -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386
Hello all: OK, now that I've at least identified the FDISK problem, and solved the DIR divide by zero problem, I need to work on why FreeDOS doesn't boot and/or run stably on many computers. Fortunately, I have the Haunted HP Pavilion. I have a repeateable problem with the VOL command built into FreeCOM. Development kernel, development command.com, development sys.com. HIMEM.EXE and EMM386.EXE from emmx204.zip. Booting from USB floppy. (EDIT from Beta9SR1 CD :-)). config.sys: device=a:\himem.exe REM device=a:\emm38.exe x=test max=256M memcheck vds Boot HP Pavilion: [...] C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, start= 0 MB, size= 16MB WARNING: partition Pri:4 FS 06 has CHS=3584-0-1, not 1023-254-63 WARNING: partition Pri:4 FS 06 has CHS=3646-254-63, not 1023-354-63 WARNING: partition Pri:4 FS 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=28113 MB, size=494 MB FreeDOS HIMEM64 4.11 [...] HIMEM - BIOS A20 method used A:\ vol c: Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 2640-14E4 A:\ vol d: Volume in drive D has no label Volume Serial Number is 6D08-68B3 A:\ Change config.sys to: device=a:\himem.sys device=a:\emm386.exe x=test max=256M memcheck vds and reboot. [...] EMM386 2.04 [...] selected page frame e000 not available, searching automatically using PAGEFRAME e000: A:\ vol d: That's it...no output and no return. Repeat, removing MEMCHECK option from emm386. Still hangs. Remove x=test and add NOEMS. (config.sys now: device=a:\himem.exe device=a:\emm386.exe noems max=256M vds) Screen full of rapidly repeating garbage I can't read...looks like a register dump...the pattern looks like two lines but it scrolls by so fast I can't read it until I turn the power off. Add memcheck to device=a:\emm386 line. No change, rapidly scrolling garbage. Remove NOEMS. EMM386 2.04 [...] No other lines from EMM386. Boots normally, A:\ vol d: hangs. Help! How do I start to debug this?!?! This is the same machine which has FDISK overwriting the partition table whenever it is run with EMM386. Thanks. Mark Bailey --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386
At 12:22 AM 7/28/2005 +, Mark Bailey wrote: Help! How do I start to debug this?!?! This is the same machine which has FDISK overwriting the partition table whenever it is run with EMM386. Exclude all high memory via X=A000-EFFF and add NOEMS option. Those two options only, unless your USB driver needs MEMCHECK (some do). Tells you whether you have an upper memory block conflict. So, try: EMM386 X=A000-EFFF NOEMS EMM386 X=A000-EFFF NOEMS MEMCHECK --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] screen reader
Hi I am a blind computer user. Does anyone know of a freeware software package for dos. This way speech could be obtained threw the sound card and a external speech unit wouldn't be needed. Thanks Mike. PS incase you don't know what a screen reader is, it makes the computer speak the contance of the screen. X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0530-1, 07/26/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
