Hi,

I will try to double check. It was difficult for me to find a working
combination of CHS and mode. However Windows98 had no issues with identical
settings.

Best regards,

Dimitris

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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