Hi!
> 17-Авг-2006 11:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>:
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jhu> I have been having some problems with FreeDOS changing drive letters on me
Damn. Jusin, turn off HTML formatting in your Outlook! And disable
attaching image to your letters!
jhu> unexpectedly so that it is unable to find it's own command.com
jhu> I am ultimately trying to get a system which will dual boot FreeDOS and
jhu> Windows XPe, so that I can boot into DOS to allow the windows system files
jhu> to be updated automatically.
jhu> Initially I downloaded an ODIN floppy disk image and used it to create a
jhu> bootable CD in floppy disk emulation, using Nero. This booted
jhu> successfully, and allowed me to partition and format the hard drive.
jhu> However, when I then booted from the hard drive, although it listed the
jhu> three partitions correctly during the boot, it complained that COMMAND.COM
jhu> was missing. Having found a command.com for it to use it became apparent
jhu> that the C: drive was in fact the 5Gb empty partition and not the small DOS
jhu> partition which had COMMAND.COM on it.
DOS assigns "C:" to partition, from which it boots (or, if you boot
from diskette, which is primary active/bootable partition on first disk).
jhu> Re-format the HD as before, reboot to HD and alll is well - it works!
jhu> Until I remove the floppy drive and boot from the HD and then the drive
jhu> letters change again and it can't find command.com.
And where is your disk layout (which partitions there present)? Why you
not show us, which letter were assigned and which you expect to assign?
jhu> FreeDOS kernel version 0.0.35
jhu> Kernel.sys has size 44,056 dated 09-16-05 12:26a
This is old version.
jhu> Hard disk has three partitions
jhu> C: - FAT16 20Mb primary active formatted /s
jhu> D: - FAT32 3Gb primary formatted /s
jhu> E: - FAT32 5Gb primary formatted without /s
What shows FDISK - how your disk is partitioned?
jhu> --ATTACHMENT-- image/jpeg file <Notebook.jpg>
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