Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hm... why not ask on -kernel or at least on -devel?
Because I was writing a follow up to someone else's message.
I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a
286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but
will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't
investigated into this).
IF it locks in InitDisk then you will see the InitDisk string on the
<snip>
I know. I know very well that it locks on InitDisk, but I don't have the
PC available to investigate there.
screen. If you do not, then you can try FDISK /MBR to replace the MBR
program code by a fresh copy, and/or try a newer SYS version to
No, I won't do that, because my aim is not to have a machine working,
but to discover a possible FreeDOS kernel bug.
I seem to recall that Arkady has a tool to inspect the MBR and
find possible problems, right?
Arkady has BOOTFIX to analyze bootsectors. To analyze the MBR, use
FDISK /SMBR [drive number, e.g. 1] to save the MBR to a boot.mbr file.
You can also try MIRROR /PARTN ... or a debug script or other methods.
Thanks! I was wondering if Arkady could point us to a fresh version of
BOOTFIX.
Aitor
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