Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys (Fabrizio Gennari),apology

2010-12-14 Thread Garrison Ricketson
post,this is really kind of embarresing, if I could I would delete, my previous post,..but oh well it is sent,...so any way glad to see he got it worked out... from Garry     Message: 7 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:02:50 +0100 From: Fabrizio Gennari Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys To: fr

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-06 Thread Fabrizio Gennari
Solved! A previous attempt at installing FreeDOS in a logical partition was still there. GRUB tried to boot that, in any case. I dont know why: maybe a GRUB bug, maybe the primary partition was created by using GParted's copy partition, meaning that the two partitions were identical, even with

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-05 Thread Christian Masloch
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:13:15 +0100, Fabrizio Gennari wrote: > Il 05/12/2010 13:25, Fabrizio Gennari ha scritto: >> Where do I download the new kernel and the new SYS? I guess that, after >> the download, it's a matter of unzipping in the right folder... > Found the answer to that: > http://ftp.g

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-05 Thread Fabrizio Gennari
Il 05/12/2010 13:25, Fabrizio Gennari ha scritto: Where do I download the new kernel and the new SYS? I guess that, after the download, it's a matter of unzipping in the right folder... Found the answer to that: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2039/ , then unzip manually k

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-05 Thread Fabrizio Gennari
From: Rugxulo - 2010-12-04 19:34 >Il 04/12/2010 19:14, Fabrizio Gennari ha scritto: >I installed FreeDOS on a partition of my HD, but, when booting it, it >says "Loading FreeDOS no KERNEL SYS". > >FAT32 partition? What kernel version, 2036 (from FD 1.0) or newer?? FAT32. How do you tell the ke

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-04 Thread Christian Masloch
> http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=General_Information/225 > says obscurely "a little tweaking (of the boot sector "linear partition > position" / hidden sectors value) should make LBA booting on any drive > letter possible", but it does not specify what to tweak and how.

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 12/4/10, Fabrizio Gennari wrote: > > I installed FreeDOS on a partition of my HD, but, when booting it, it > says "Loading FreeDOS no KERNEL SYS". FAT32 partition? What kernel version, 2036 (from FD 1.0) or newer?? > When booting FreeDOS from CD, the partition is visible as C:. I even >