Ray Davison composed on 2026-03-13 17:03 (UTC-0700):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> MBR tables have 4 places to define primary partitions. To have any logicals,
>> one
>> of the MBR places must be allocated for the use of logicals. So if you have
>> already allocated 4 regular primaries, you cannot create any logicals until
>> you
>> first remove one of the primaries to free up a place for their allocation.
> Hi Felix, long time no hear from.
I don't remember seeing you here before, only on DFSee, Mozilla and/or OS/2
lists.
> I have been able to create a clean HDD. It shipped as GPT and is now
> MBR, which seems to be it's desired condition.
> I have Linux Neon installed, it did not install a boot manager.
Translated, does this mean Neon is not bootable from its installed location at
present?
> and I just touched something, the screen zoomed to many times size, an
> re-boot does not return it, and I have not found any keyboard functions
> to return it. Scale says 100%
> But to the relevant subject. There is a 1Gb fat32 at the front.
> FreeDOS install ended with a C:\. DIR shows what appears to be normal
> FreeDOS files. But FreeDOS does not boot.
I suppose that FAT32 would be where you installed FreeDOS. Is that partition
marked bootable in the partition table? Is there MBR-compatible boot code in the
MBR of the disk you installed FreeDOS onto? What other partitions do you
currently
have on the FreeDOS and Neon disks? Were you booting Linux I would ask to see
output from parted -l or fdisk -l.
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Felix Miata
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