Good day, all:
I am trying to get a USB stick to boot FreeDOS using SYSLINUX and MEMDISK.
It boots fine using the odin1440.img file from odin.fdos.org/2005/. FreeDOS
boots fine and copies the odin1440.img files to A: (a ram disk).
It recognizes the USB stick as C:. However, a DIR C: shows no files
and any attempt to copy a file to the stick works but corrupts it. A "FORMAT
C:"
appears to work but then Windows considers the USB stick to be of type
"RAW".
Upon booting, the interesting FreeDOS statements are:
FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.35w (Build 2035w-UNSTABLE, Sep 15 2005)
WARNING: partition Pri: 1 FS 0B has CHS= 89-97-1, not 89-128-11
C: HD1, PR1[ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, Start=0MB, Size=62MB
MSDOS has no trouble reading and writing this disk as C:. Windows has no
problems with it and I've reformatted it several times with Windows to FAT
and FAT32.
Linux fdisk says the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 65 MB, 65208320 bytes
129 heads, 11 sectors/track, 89 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1419 * 512 = 726528 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 90 63674 b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(89, 128, 11) logical=(89, 97, 1)
Command (m for help): q
I can provide a hex dump of the boot sector (or a binary file) if it will help.
I would consider this a severe bug since it corrupts the USB stick.
Any comments or suggestions? I would like to get a reliable way to boot
FreeDOS on a USB stick and I think this is it, but not if attempting to
access the USB stick corrupts it! :-)
I might be able to repartition the USB stick, but this bug needs to be
fixed and I have a reproducable test case at the moment! :-) And,
MS-DOS works fine.
Thanks.
Mark Bailey
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