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  • From: Justin Gombos <mindfuq AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Boot from DOS anomalies (reboots or hangs)
  • Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:48:16 -0700

* 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org <3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org> [2006-11-19 00:18]:
>
> Was your C: drive formated from MSDOS, DrDOS,
> Windows, or something else?

It's FAT16 and I believe it was formatted using MSDOS (win95 varient),
but I dug this drive out of a box of parts I've been sitting on for
probably a decade. Back then I would have used MSDOS. (Though if I
repartitioned it again today, I'd use freeDOS 7 or linux).

My next approach is to use GNU parted to shrink the FAT16 partition to
make room for an EXT2 partition.

> When you execute boot.bat, what exactly happens? Is there
> any output? Does anything happen at all?

It outputs the commandline that it's executing ("loadlin ... "), and
simply freezes. There is no drive activity or anything.

> Which unzipper did you use to unzip bl3-40.zip? What files
> did you get and what size are they? Did you edit or change
> anything before executing boot.bat?

I mounted the FAT16 partition using Damn Small Linux ("DSL"). I
copied the files from a USB drive, which were possibly expanded on an
XP box.. or I used DSLs unzip; I'm not certain. Here are the hashes
and listing:

5b846ea59a3cd7f2af19686823be6d85 /mnt/hda1/baslin/boot.bat
ec9e91865794012d0a9bc8ea2d754126 /mnt/hda1/baslin/fs.img
acc614f11a9afd8a0ceaba5f79c155df /mnt/hda1/baslin/initfs.gz
e02f6bda08d25df6b64dcca22b950784 /mnt/hda1/baslin/loadlin.exe
caa5c1e7fc29d977741eb22edfb35d38 /mnt/hda1/baslin/readme.txt
73b134ca9ec5092ae1d206bc2e54cee7 /mnt/hda1/baslin/swap.zip
30a21cc2afabf184837c9bb32abc776f /mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage
9a2b048cec85a7a35aa4f6eea5eadfbc /mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage.4dx

-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 114 Dec 17 17:37 /mnt/hda1/baslin/boot.bat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 20971520 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/fs.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 43821 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/initfs.gz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 32225 Dec 16 03:40
/mnt/hda1/baslin/loadlin.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 2466 Dec 16 03:40
/mnt/hda1/baslin/readme.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 6855 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/swap.zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 458327 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage
-rwxrwxrwx 1 knoppix knoppix 442140 Dec 17 22:26
/mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage.4dx

> Hopefully, one of these things will point to the problem.

Thanks for your help!




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