CF boot - DOS does not, WinXP does?

[Brutus]

Hello there!

I've ran into a strange problem:
just bought a CF-IDE adapter and a SanDisk, 256 CF card.
They worked fine, but XP saw it as removable media. Ok, I've contacted
SanDisk, they sent the tool, so I set the card to behave as
non-removable.
But still, when I put Win98 on the card (either with sys a: c: or
format /s), it seem to work fine, but it just doenst boot! I stops
before diplaying: Loading Win98 (or whatever it should be).
I've copied a XPe image to it, and altough it stopped at HAL.DLL, it
started to boot!

Please, tell me whats wrong? Or XPe didnt work either, just I thought
so?

Thanks!

Brutus

 

[KM]

Brutus,

Regarding DOS (win98)..
I assumed you format your CF card from DOS (/s switch of format utility is
not supported on NT/XP).
Did you run bootprep on the CF card? That was, probably, the reason why sys
a: c: did not help you to start DOS from it.
You may use diskpart tool to re-partition and mark active partition on the
CF card. Also, fdisk /MBR will write the master boot record to your CF card.

Regarding XPe...
Most likely you used wrong ARC path in your boot.ini. Also, check your TD
project boot settings.

KM

 

[Brutus]

Hello KM!

Actually, the problem is bigger here... The partition is formatted
from DOS (Win98), then sys a: c:. _NO_ bootprep! The partition is
active, tried P/M and S/S as well.
The bigger problem: if I format it to NTFS, after maybe the next boot,
Windows cannot read it: says corrupted file system... Tried LBA and
CHS, same result.
From a USB reader, it works well. What is it? I just ran out of ideas,
pls help me!


Thanks,

Brutus