Steven, You know, I've responded to this twice and so far my answer has not shown up on the list.
Basically, check the LBA/Normal/whatever setting for the drive in your BIOS CMOS setup area. DOS can't see certain disk geometries (essentially a cylinder count limitation). Let me know if you get this. Cheers, ~~ Garry * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven C. Darnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 7:52 AM Subject: [SURVPC] HD problem > 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 > 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
