I might be missing the boat here, but what you describe vaguely look like a problem I had in some distant past, when I misconfigured my HDD in the BIOS.
Perhaps you could check whether your drive's geometry is 100% correct in your BIOS? Mateusz On 19/07/2016 07:12, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > Hi, > > I was able to reinstall and boot successfully by performing an fdisk > without FAT32 support, and creating a FAT16 2GB partition. At least with > JEMM386, that is. So FAT32 support being the issue may be the case. > > Let me know if I can try anything else to confirm that. > > Cheers, > > Dimitris > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com > <mailto:dimitr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com > <mailto:rugx...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos > <dimitr...@gmail.com <mailto:dimitr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Thank you for following up. fdisk reports that C: drive is already > active. I > > did run mbrzap it completed successfully but there has been no > change, > > system gets stuck right after BIOS summary table. > > What filesystem(s) are you using? FAT32, presumably. You said > you had > 4 GB and 6 GB HDDs, right? > > Sometimes it has been noticed that a FAT32 partition is created with > plain type 0xB instead of 0xC (LBA), so you may have to change that. > > http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/fdisk.htm > > I'm not entirely sure what is most informative or useful here: > "/STATUS"? "/XO"? "/SPEC"? > > Honestly, I think I just used BootMgr to change it: > > http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=bootmgr > > (This may not be your problem, I'm just grasping at straws.) > > > > Indeed the partition type is 11. I have used fdisk to change that to > 12 but there was no change. I did a re-installation after the change > too. > > Cheers, > > Dimitris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
