Hello, all: I downloaded the development kernel, SYS, and command.com files TODAY and repeated the experiment. Everything worked fine...the hard disk boots, is recognized, and comes up as C:. There is no A: confusion.
I did some research and learned way more than I ever wanted to know about volume boot sectors. :-) The SYS version says V3.6, July 21, 2005. Does that mean it was updated or it it somehow automatically built every day? The version that failed was version 3.4, so I guess this problem was fixed. This problem would have been enough to send a casual user back to MS-DOS (IMHO). :-( Now, back to the FDISK problem - tomorrow, maybe. Mark > Hello, all: > > Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install > FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop > entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. > The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). > > I just grabbed a Windows98SE boot disk, booted it from a USB > floppy, and did a SYS C:. Rebooting (yes, using GAG) yielded a > C:> prompt and a functioning MS-DOS installation. > > Rebooted Windows and reformatted the partition. Booted the > Beta9SR1 CD. Entered 1 1 2 to run FreeDOS. From the > X:\whatever prompt, entered A:. > > Entered > SYS C: > > DIR C: shows the files. (kernel.sys command.com). > > Rebooted. Got an error about being unable to find command.com. > entered a:\command.com a:/ > > Got an error about C: being invalid and a > > > prompt. Entered A:. > > A: looks like the hard disk partition which was booted. DIR C: > and DIR D: fail. During boot, the kernel recogizes the two > partitions on the hard drive as C: and D:, according to the > messages that go by. > > Any ideas on the problem here? I've tried various times to use > different versions of SYS, booting from floppy, etc., but have been > unsuccessful. > > Obviously, this should boot correctly to a C:> prompt. > > Mark Bailey > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
