Mark McRitchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Just noticed the error that appears after confirming the partitioning:
>  Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
>  Error: Partition doesn't exist!
> 
> It does complain just before prompting to partition the drive about
> C/H/S not multiplying out to 3145728.

Hm, this hurts.  Are you sure about 3145728?  Because that is supposed
to be the size of the disk in sectors (512 bytes each), which
multiplies out to 1.5 gigabytes.  I am guessing your hard disk is
actually larger than that.

Tell me about your hardware.  IDE?  SCSI?  RAID?  What devices do you
have connected to each interface, and where (primary/secondary,
master/slave, etc).

It sounds like the BIOS's notion of the "first" disk (disk 80h in the
INT13 interface) is not your boot device, which is an assumption we
make right now.  I can fix that assumption, but I need to understand
what is going on first.

> As such, I've got past the error I was getting about /dev/dsk1 but
> all that seems to be happening now is I'm getting the dosemu startup
> screen and nothing else.

We communicate our notion of the disk geometry to dosemu.  If that
notion is scrambled, random bad things are likely to happen.

I will need your help to track this down and fix it.  After you
describe your hardware, the next step will be to poke around under
/sys/firmware/edd...

 - Pat


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