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Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:58:25 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Booting above 1024? EXTDISK AND DFSEE REPORTS

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In <200403140755.2093865.8@scoug.com>, on 03/14/04
at 07:55 AM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

>1- EXTDISK run from a DOS boot disk says:

> "Int 13H extensions are supported"

That's good and expected.

> P-Geo Disk 1 Cyl : 20768 H: 15 S:63 Size : 012B7720 = 9582.9 MiB
> L-Geo Disk 1 Cyl : 1299 H:240 S:63 Size : 012BB230 = 9590.3 MiB
> BIOS Int13 limit : 1023 cylinders Size : 7560.0 MiB
> MBR crc 054b4eb9 : cce185ed = IBM OS/2 LVM or W4 from FP9, I13X

Is this after running

lvm /newmbr:1

I'm having a little trouble keeping all the threads with different
subjects in time order.

> Id D A Dr Type Form Label info LVM vol,part B-cyl E-cyl Size MiB
> -- - - -- ---- ---- ----------- ------------- ----- ----- --------
> 01 1 > P 0a BMGR I13X-aware ,[ BOOT MANAG 0 0 7.3
> 02 1 * H 16 FAT1 WIN98THAI ,Win98 1 203 1498.6
> 03 1 * P 06 FAT1 DOSWIN31OS2 ,DOSWin311 204 338 996.6
> 04 1 D: L 06 FAT1 NO NAME D_data,D_data 339 542 1506.0
> 05 1 E: L 06 FAT1 DRV_E E_progra,E_pr 543 678 1004.0
> 06 1 F: L 06 FAT1 DRV_F F_data,F_data 679 814 1004.0
> 07 1 L 06 FAT1 DRV_G 815 882 502.0
> 08 1 * H: L 07 HPFS ecs 1.1 ,ecs 883 991 804.6
> 09 1 Free 992 1086 701.3
> 09 1 I: L 07 HPFS OS2 PROGS I_hpfs_e,I_hp 1087 1222 1004.0
> 10 1 J: L 07 HPFS OS2 SWAP J_hpfs_e,J_hp 1223 1297 553.6
> 12 1 Free 1298 1298 7.3
> 11 2 Free 0 3 0.0
> 11 2 } Z: P 06 FAT ECS MEMDISK eCS Memo,ECS 4 511 7.9

This is all pretty much was I would expect if some part of the boot chain
is not int13x aware.

>1-Why doesn't eCS accept IBM's word when they say this lates BIOS
> allows booting above 1024 cylinders and EXTDISK confirms this?

Because that's not all that required, but you already know this.
Everything in the boot chain must support int13x. BIOS, MBR, BM and the
partition boot code.

>2-What can I do to make this system usable with my 3Com NIC which
> works fine on my 600X (driver 10-27-96 30237 bytes elpc3.os2)?

A job for a different thread.

Regards,

Steven

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