On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:32:04AM +0000, Robert de Bath wrote: > > > You can get a clue what drive the BIOS has chosen for it by seeing > what drive letter it's given if you boot DOS off it. If it's C: then > it's pretending to be a hard drive and probably is drive number 128 > with the other hard drives renumbered to 129 and up. > > If DOS sees it as drive A then the problem may be more subtle such > as a violently wrong geometry assumption or a very special dos boot > block (like the ones used to boot CDs without floppy emulation).
Alternatively, for the lazy and inelegant solution: Once you have gotten it to boot to Mess-DOS, use the instructions I've posted to the list to boot Tomsrtbt from Mess-DOS. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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