Good day, all: OK, I decided to try "superfloppy" mode for booting a USB stick on this Dell laptop. As you may recall, a partitioned USB stick did boot on this box but it booted to C:\ while the files showed up as a:\.
Anyway, I blew away the MBR on the stick, used Linux to create a DOS file system, and used "wsys" to write a FreeDOS boot sector to it. Upon boot, the development kernel reports: C: HD2, Pri[ 3], CHS = 1919-0-1, start = 15053 MB, size = 478MB WARNING: partition Ext:1 FS 0B is not LBA Please run FDISK [...] D: HD2, Ext[ 1], CSH = 1980-1-1, start=15531 MB, size = 22520MB Bad or missing command interpreter (I entered a:\command.com, hoping the stick was at a:) This ran command.com from the above C: partition, a MS-DOS installation! Current drive is not valid> a: A:\> Now, a DIR A: shows the partition identified above as HD2, C:. A DIR B: shows the partition identified above as HD2, D:! DIR C: gives an error. I can't add a floppy drive to this laptop (except for a USB floppy drive which just adds too much confustion), but clearly the problems booting this laptop don't depend on whether the USB stick has an MBR! Ugh!!! Mark Bailey ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
