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Re: Current drive?

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:24 pm
by lweb20
Emm thank you all. I have another very strange problem. The entry of the partition table (es:di) is 0x0:0x7CE (should be 0x0:0x1CE) in VMWare, booting from partition 1 (starting at zero). What's going on?

I read: http://wiki.osdev.org/MBR_(x86)

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 3:32 am
by Combuster
lweb20 wrote:es:di
lweb20 wrote:I read: http://wiki.osdev.org/MBR_(x86)
Brendan wrote:DS:SI
Wiki wrote:DS:SI
Image

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:52 am
by lweb20
Combuster wrote:
lweb20 wrote:es:di
lweb20 wrote:I read: http://wiki.osdev.org/MBR_(x86)
Brendan wrote:DS:SI
Wiki wrote:DS:SI
mm.. sorry I wrote wrong. In my code have ds:si .. erase that image :|

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:17 am
by Gigasoft
lweb20 wrote:Emm thank you all. I have another very strange problem. The entry of the partition table (es:di) is 0x0:0x7CE (should be 0x0:0x1CE) in VMWare, booting from partition 1 (starting at zero). What's going on?

I read: http://wiki.osdev.org/MBR_(x86)
And how did you come up with the "should be 0x0:0x1CE" part? What is going is that you can't read properly.

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:24 am
by Combuster
erase that image
Can we trust your observations then? It is as of yet still a completely valid concern.

The answer is probably no because the remainder of your previous post contains one number I can't assert, and another blatant error, which makes the majority of your stated facts provably wrong.


[Edit]Today's ninja pointed that other error out for you

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:28 am
by lweb20
Gigasoft wrote:
lweb20 wrote:Emm thank you all. I have another very strange problem. The entry of the partition table (es:di) is 0x0:0x7CE (should be 0x0:0x1CE) in VMWare, booting from partition 1 (starting at zero). What's going on?

I read: http://wiki.osdev.org/MBR_(x86)
And how did you come up with the "should be 0x0:0x1CE" part? What is going is that you can't read properly.

Code: Select all

0x   7    C    E
   111 1100 1110b

0x   1    C    E
   001 1100 1110b
I only consider low 9 bits. :D

EDIT: and my real partition index is 1 (starting in zero)

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:30 am
by Combuster
lweb20 wrote:I only consider low 9 bits. :D
Not sure if trolling or just stupid.
Most likely trolling.

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:31 am
by lweb20
Combuster wrote:
lweb20 wrote:I only consider low 9 bits. :D
Not sure of trolling or stupid. Most likely trolling.
mm then what any other ideas?

Re: Current drive?

Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:32 am
by Combuster
A thread lock since your question has by all means been answered, and I'm going to save other people's time by not letting them bother finding out the actual truth..