Franklin wrote:

>I have an 80 gig Maxtor hard drive I am learning more about as I try to
>use it. Found out most of my troubles were caused by leaving the bios
>set at AUTO which set the hard drive standard translation instead of
>LBA.
>
most BIOSes I have seen, in addition to an auto-detect function for IDE 
drives, have on the opening screen an entry for Primary and secondary 
master and slave, where the first and last entries for each have to be 
set to AUTO, to have the BIOS determine on each boot whether any of the 
four options have been changed.

> ECS didn't seem to mind but win98 no way.
>
eCS-OS/2 query the drive hardware directly - W98 doesn't.

> The VIA chipset seems
>confused as to what to set it at at each boot, intel chipset at least
>seems to stay consistent. Set the bios at manual and LBA and win98 can
>now function.
>
>Anyhow I am trying to load ECS and Win98 on this drive giving each half
>the space. Given the limitations of windows fdisk, I low level quick
>formatted this drive to make the boot sector clean, set the bios to
>LBA, booted ECS install and first installed Boot manager in front. Then
>a 1004 meg primary for ECS, a 39 gig primary for win98, and a 38 gig
>logical for JFS. Installed ECS on the 1004 meg primary. Formatted the
>39gig primary with windows, then found out that ECS IDs a bootable
>primary volume as FAT16!
>
Have never seen that here!

> So using windows fdisk, deleted the 39gig
>primary, then recreated it as a DOS fat32 primary partition. Formatted
>successfully and installed win98. Both OS's work fine in their spaces.
>
>The problem is that LVM does not recognize that partition as bootable
>even though LVM created the partition and volume as bootable and it has
>a letter. It even correctly reports it as FAT32. I cannot add it to the
>Boot Manager menu, or set it as startable for the next boot. I didn't
>think it is a 1024 cylinder limit because I've done the same setup on a
>40 gig drive (each OS gets 20 gig) and it works fine there.
>
>So for now from win98 fdisk I can set the OS/2 partition as active and
>boot os2 next, but must boot a windows floppy or CD to switch from ECS
>back to windows. I was hoping not to have to use another boot manager.
>Is there something I can do to fix this?
>
>    7 meg pri --> Boot Manager
> 1004 meg pri --> HPFS ECS11 fp3 installed  C:
>39139 meg pri --> FAT32 win98se             M:
>38008 meg log --> JFS volume                D:
>
>Franklin
>

Hi Franklin,

Low-level  and quick format is a contradiction in terms, as a low-level 
zeroes out everything on the drive whilst doing a read+write+read on 
every sector to mark off any bad sectors.  As your intention was only to 
clean out the MBR, just booting from the eCS Installation CD, to the 
Management Console, and issuing LVM /NEWMBR:#, where # was the 
["base-1"] number of the physical drive achieves that.

Boot from the eCS CD as above - remove the IBM BM using LVM.EXE - reboot 
- reinstall IBM BM, add the bootable volumes back onto its menu, should 
fix it.

HTH

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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