Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think FreeDOS (all DOSes?) depends on an LBA/EDD capable BIOS when using FAT32 [0][1]. It could be you have a drive and/or BIOS with buggy/incomplete/incompatible/non-existent LBA/EDD implementations. Being your computer is 486-based, that is very much a possibility. I had buggy/incomplete LBA implementations in my PCs until my K6-II, IIRC.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H#EDD [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing#Enhanced_BIOS On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> 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> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
