Re: [Freedos-kernel] USB-HDD booting and LBA-to-CHS conversion

2011-07-07 Thread Ranieri Batista
I'm really sorry, I admit my description was quite confusing. All of this is not exactly a problem to me, I could just format the pendrive with the desktop BIOS geometry 974/128/63 and be done with it. I am just being stubborn, trying to understand if there is a technical reason that FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-kernel] USB-HDD booting and LBA-to-CHS conversion

2011-07-07 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Ranieri, try SYS CONFIG KERNEL.SYS FORCELBA=1 after that SYS CONFIG KERNEL.SYS to list current option this will force the freedos kernel.sys to always use LBA and ignore CHS completely. Tom am 7. Juli 2011 um 15:41 schrieben Sie: I'm really sorry, I admit my description was

Re: [Freedos-kernel] USB-HDD booting and LBA-to-CHS conversion

2011-07-07 Thread Ranieri Batista
try SYS CONFIG KERNEL.SYS FORCELBA=1 after that SYS CONFIG KERNEL.SYS to list current option this will force the freedos kernel.sys to always use LBA and ignore CHS completely. Tom I have already been told to do that. If SYS CONFIG changes the file KERNEL.SYS itself, then it

Re: [Freedos-kernel] USB-HDD booting and LBA-to-CHS conversion

2011-07-07 Thread Ranieri Batista
If all is well, your pendrive's boot sector(s) use the 1021/124/62 geometry. I think the partition is properly set as 1021/124/62 because the desktop refused to boot Syslinux in the pendrive earlier. Since I had set the geometry this way it can boot from the pendrive. You can always use SYS