https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c1 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |aschnell@suse.com InfoProvider| |roland@logikalsolutions.com --- Comment #1 from Arvin Schnell 2012-02-13 10:24:35 UTC --- Since I don't have MS DOS I cannot analyse the problem here. But I see three possible reasons: 1. partition alignment, 2. partition ID and 3. the filesystem. Please run "parted <disk> unit s print" with <disk> the device of your hard disk, e.g. /dev/sda, so that we can see the partition alignment and ID. Also provide YaST logs, see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c3 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #3 from Arvin Schnell 2012-02-13 14:33:35 UTC --- I tried with the MS-DOS you referenced and reading the VFAT partition created with openSUSE works for me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c5 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #5 from Arvin Schnell 2012-02-13 19:29:33 UTC --- The initial description states that you created a primary partition, not an extended or logical! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c7 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |roland@logikalsolutions.com --- Comment #7 from Arvin Schnell 2012-02-13 20:39:22 UTC --- Please provide the information request in comment #1. Also stop mentioning boot floppies or CDs. I installed MS DOS on a hard disk and booted from there. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c9 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #9 from Arvin Schnell 2012-02-14 09:51:41 UTC --- Well, I have tried to reproduce the problem but it works for me. What I did is: a) Install MS DOS on disk 1, install openSUSE on disk 2. b) Shrink MS DOS partition with YaST and create primary VFAT partition on disk 1. c) Also create primary VFAT partition on disk 2. d) Boot MS DOS, both newly created VFAT partitions can be accessed from MS DOS.

From the initial description I read that you did create primary partitions with YaST and could not read those from MS DOS. That works for me.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743965#c11 --- Comment #11 from Roland Hughes 2012-02-14 14:27:06 UTC --- There are two bugs associated with this. I was deliberately opposed to splitting this because I knew it would be hosed in here. The ENTIRE scenario is as follows: Installed MS-DOS 7.1 and got all applications working. Installed OpenSuSE in extended partition - during install created FAT-32 to be DRIVE_D so I could exchange between DOS and Linux - SWAP, home, and two other partitions in extended. MS-DOS was unable to access anything other than itself because extended partition type was 63 which is invalid to DOS. I then deleted DRIVE_D, which was at the beginning of the extended partition, and shrunk the extended partition by that size. I created a primary partition DRIVE_D in the newly freed up space and STILL MS-DOS could not access it. The humiliating kick to the crotch was that FDISK shipping with MS-DOS 7.1 will only let you create ONE primary partition. In the end, the solution had to be: 1) backup 2) nuke entire extended partition 3) create shiny new extended partition using DOS FDISK 4) Resize it with GParted off Parted Magic because DOS FDISK can READ a very large size, but cannot correctly fill in the value (1.5TB with only 20Gig used for DOS) 5) restore the other partitions from backup 6) copy the DRIVE_D content from USB drive. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.