[syslinux] Syslinux & Error 440D

Josef Siemes jsiemes at web.de
Mon Feb 11 08:17:51 PST 2002


Hi,

"DiGiacomo, Mario" <mdigiaco at anteon.com> schrieb am 11.02.02:
> 1] Using a Windows 98 boot floppy, i booted to the A: prompt.
> 2] Using fdisk, I completely repartioned the flash disk, resulting in a 16
> meg primary DOS partition.
> 3] I then formatted the flash disk with FAT12.
> 4] I ran "lock c:"
> 5] As described in syslinux.doc, I ran "fdisk /mbr".
> 6] I then typed syslinux c: and received the exact message below:
> "ERROR 440D: Unable to lock drive for exclusive access"
> Running with -s made no difference.
> 
> While a LDLINUX.SYS file is copied, the system does not boot.  I've used
> syslinux successfully with floppy disks, so I'm at a loss to explain this
> difficulty.

Did you change to C:, or are you still on A:? You should be on 'A:'.
Did you try to leave out 'lock c:'? Or run fdisk, reboot and then install
syslinux?

Did you try to install syslinux from linux? Maybe this will have more
success, since some versions of WinXX are just braindead.

Regards,

Josef

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