Hi Jerome,
let me summarize: You can fdisk, format and use 100 GB FAT32 LBA partitions using a certain (which?) version of a non-8086, e.g. 386 optimized kernel of FreeDOS. However, doing the same on some (which?) kernel which is trying to support 8086, you fail to use FORMAT on said, probably FAT32 LBA, partition? I assume you did use an 8086 kernel with FAT32 support compiled in? If not, you should have gotten a warning from FDISK that FAT32 partitions are not supported by that kernel. > Boot LiveCD (Kernel386), run FDISK create 100Gb, partition, > reboot, format, All is good. Boot Floppy Edition, > dir C:, invalid drive. What does the floppy (8086 compatible) edition kernel say at boot? > Boot Floppy Edition (Kernel86), run FDISK create 502mb, partition, > reboot, format, all is good. A-Ok. FAT16 or FAT32? LBA or CHS? > So, I guess it is either be design that larger partitions do not > work on the 16bit kernel or a bug somewhere in the kernel, fdisk, > format chain. You need to be A LOT more specific about the context of the problem. At least do mention the version numbers of kernel, fdisk and format! Eric PS: Please report WHICHFAT C: and WHICHFAT output for all kernels: http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/whichfat.zip PPS: Thanks for the mirroring! _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
