[Freedos-user] Thousands of Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x... messages, error when formatting
Hi there, I was going to install FreeDOS 1.1 on a USB drive within qemu 1.1.1 on Opensuse 12.2 32 bit. After selecting the language in the FreeDOS installer, my notebook was busy during the next hour with thousands of thousands of messages like Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x Here is exactly what I did: - plugged in a USB drive - erased all partition data with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=16 - created a new FAT16 partition with fdisk (1 GB, partition label 6), set this to active - created the filesystem with mkfs -t vfat -n FreeDOS /dev/sdb1 After that, I started qemu with qemu-system-i386 -hda /dev/sdb -cdrom fd11src.iso -boot d. The FreeDOS installer started, I begun the installation with 1. It let me choose my language, and after this the enormous amount of error messages. About an hour later, the installer finally asked me where to install - I chose C: (the installer showed me mysteriously only 255 MB). Then it asked me if I want to format the drive with FAT32 - which I accepted. However, now it showed me the following error message: Invalid Drive! Aborting. [Error 61] FORMAT status: 4 Could not format your hard disk So what is wrong here? André -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Thousands of Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x... messages, error when formatting
Op 9-11-2012 16:47, André Bachmann schreef: Hi there, I was going to install FreeDOS 1.1 on a USB drive within qemu 1.1.1 on Opensuse 12.2 32 bit. After selecting the language in the FreeDOS installer, my notebook was busy during the next hour with thousands of thousands of messages like Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x I've seen this as well, usually with a drive C: (primary active FAT32 partition) that didn't have a filesystem on it yet (done by FORMAT) Some installation tools check drive C: to see if it's present. Here is exactly what I did: - plugged in a USB drive - erased all partition data with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=16 - created a new FAT16 partition with fdisk (1 GB, partition label 6), set this to active - created the filesystem with mkfs -t vfat -n FreeDOS /dev/sdb1 You could try providing this USB Flash Device to QEMU without first assigning a partition and filesystem. FreeDOS is able to do it by itself using the FDISK program to create a partition, and FORMAT program (after rebooting QEMU once FDISK has finished). FORMAT C: /Q should do the trick. Afterwards run SYS C: After that, I started qemu with qemu-system-i386 -hda /dev/sdb -cdrom fd11src.iso -boot d. The FreeDOS installer started, I begun the installation with 1. It let me choose my language, and after this the enormous amount of error messages. About an hour later, the installer finally asked me where to install - I chose C: (the installer showed me mysteriously only 255 MB). Then it asked me if I want to format the drive with FAT32 - which I accepted. However, now it showed me the following error message: Invalid Drive! Aborting. [Error 61] FORMAT status: 4 Could not format your hard disk Not seen this error before, sorry. Is your USB stick more emulator-friendly if performing the partitioning with Gparted or something? Standard reference procedure should be something like detailed in: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox Bernd -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Thousands of Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x... messages, error when formatting
Hi Bernd, Andre, I was going to install FreeDOS 1.1 on a USB drive within qemu 1.1.1 on Opensuse 12.2 32 bit. After selecting the language in the FreeDOS installer, my notebook was busy during the next hour with thousands of thousands of messages like Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x The kernel produces that message when getblock fails. Bernd, the message is printed by clusterMessage and getblock is a macro for getblk (x, y, FALSE) which apparently is, more or less, a wrapper for dskxfer to let BUFFERS do their work... Probably something tried to access the drive as if it already was formatted while it was not, maybe failed to set a flag to mark the drive as unformatted in some internal processing... I've seen this as well, usually with a drive C: (primary active FAT32 partition) that didn't have a filesystem on it yet (done by FORMAT) Some installation tools check drive C: to see if it's present. That might fit the above, yes. Is it specific to USB drives? Here is exactly what I did: - plugged in a USB drive - erased all partition data with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=16 - created a new FAT16 partition with fdisk (1 GB, partition label 6), set this to active - created the filesystem with mkfs -t vfat -n FreeDOS /dev/sdb1 You should reboot between the last 2 steps if it were DOS, but apparently you used Linux. When you create DOS drives in Linux, you might accidentally mismatch CHS, LBA, FAT32 and FAT16 at some point, although I am not sure if there is a risk to do so during the steps described above. Also, at least with older mkdosfs (from dosfstools) it happened that the partition offset and/or geometry were not nicely set in the boot sector, causing extra work for my boot sector installing Perl script sys-freedos-linux. I think that using SYS in DOS itself had no problems, though, at least when you booted via any non-virtual way first :-) You could try providing this USB Flash Device to QEMU without first assigning a partition and filesystem. FreeDOS is able to do it by itself using the FDISK program to create a partition, and FORMAT program (after rebooting QEMU once FDISK has finished). FORMAT C: /Q should do the trick. Afterwards run SYS C: Actually you should NOT use FORMAT /Q in this case: That would try to backup some details to support later UNFORMAT which does not make much sense on a freshly partitioned drive. You can use FORMAT /Q /U to avoid the saving of unformat data if speed is an issue, or just use FORMAT without /Q option to get a non-quick format process :-) If you use /U without /Q, the whole drive contents will be wiped which can take a very long time in DOS. After that, I started qemu with qemu-system-i386 -hda /dev/sdb -cdrom fd11src.iso -boot d. The FreeDOS installer started, I begun the installation with 1. It let me choose my language, and after this the enormous amount of error messages. About an hour later, the installer finally asked me where to install - I chose C: (the installer showed me mysteriously only 255 MB). Then it asked me if I want to format the drive with FAT32 - which I accepted. However, now it showed me the following error message: Invalid Drive! Aborting. [Error 61] FORMAT status: 4 Could not format your hard disk The main.c source code of FORMAT suggests that this will happen if your drive is neither remote nor SUBST-ed but still you cannot get a truename of X:\ where X is the drive letter of the drive in question... Truename here is used to check for ASSIGN, JOIN or SUBST, but as it fails to check this at all, the drive is probably not even registered for DOS yet... Maybe rebooting between the FDISK and the FORMAT step would help here - in the QEMU case virtually rebooting is of course enough :-) Is your USB stick more emulator-friendly if performing the partitioning with Gparted or something? I would also suggest that. GPARTED makes it very easy to partition and format a drive with a few mouse clicks and as you have QEMU, you apparently already have Linux. If not, there are also a number of nice ISOs to make a bootable CD or DVD with GPARTED, or make a boot stick. Standard reference procedure should be something like detailed in: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox Good point. We already have that howto for VirtualBox, somebody could make a howto for Qemu based on that :-) Eric -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Thousands of Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x000000x
On 2012-11-09 19:42 (GMT+0100) Eric Auer composed: I was going to install FreeDOS 1.1 on a USB drive within qemu 1.1.1 on Opensuse 12.2 32 bit. After selecting the language in the FreeDOS installer, my notebook was busy during the next hour with thousands of thousands of messages like Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x The kernel produces that message when getblock fails. Bernd, the message is printed by clusterMessage and getblock is a macro for getblk (x, y, FALSE) which apparently is, more or less, a wrapper for dskxfer to let BUFFERS do their work... Probably something tried to access the drive as if it already was formatted while it was not, maybe failed to set a flag to mark the drive as unformatted in some internal processing... The Bad FAT I/O: 0x00x topic has appeared on the DFSee mailing list several times without leading to any solution, e.g.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support/message/10101 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support/message/12917 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support/message/13536 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support/message/14049 -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
