Can any of you guys think of a reason why DOS (running on a floppy) is unable to access a HD when Linux (booting from floppy to ramdisk) is able to.
Linux is able to fdisk the HD and mke2fs and install itself to the HD. It can even boot a kernel from floppy and run the HD filesystem. On the other hand, DOS is unable to fdisk the HD, nor can it format the HD (after Linux has partitioned it). fdisk /mbr doesn't work either. Linux has been used to rewrite the mbr with a known good copy (no effect). The HD has been moved to another computer where it worked perfectly. There a DOS partition was created and formatted and the HD returned to the misbehaving machine. Booting from HD yielded "No operating system" error. There has been no change from the problems outlined above. Linux works, DOS doesn't. Anybody have any ideas? Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
