On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:18:37PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I tried to move Win98 from a 2Gb disk to a 4Gb on my NetBSD-current system.
> The original had a sysid of
>     {0x0c, "Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT - LBA"},
> so I used our fdisk to give the new one the same sysid, 12, and newfs_msdos'd
> it. Then fdisk -i, fdisk -B, fdisk -u, pax -rw -pe old disk -> big disk.
> The result is the new one apparently isn't bootable - no system found. Just in
> case, I booted from the old one, and SYS C: D:, but it didn't change
> anything. scandisk of D: didn't find anything wrong. newfs_msdos mentions
> being able to create FAT12,16 and FAT32 filesystems - does it matter that I
> chose sysid 12, rather than say 11:
>     {0x0b, "Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT"},
> ? Any reason why the above shouldn't have worked?

You've failed to install the Win98 bootstrap onto the new disk partition.

	David

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