Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of syslinux on a FAT12 partition on a 16M Flash disk. However, despire reformatting, repartioning, and running both lock c: and fdisk /mbr, I keep receiving an "ERROR 440D: Unable to lock drive for exclusive access" message. Do you have any suggestions on how to bypass this problem? Please respond ASAP. Thanks, Mario Di Giacomo Anteon, Inc.
Hi, "DiGiacomo, Mario" <mdigiaco at anteon.com> schrieb am 11.02.02:> I'm trying to install the latest version of syslinux on a FAT12 partition on > a 16M Flash disk. > > However, despire reformatting, repartioning, and running both lock c: and > fdisk /mbr, I keep receiving an "ERROR 440D: Unable to lock drive for > exclusive access" message. Do you have any suggestions on how to bypass > this problem? Please respond ASAP.seems like you are doing this from WinNT or something. Try something else. Give more info what you did, what you tried, which operating system you use and the exact error messages you got. I'm quite bad at looking at your screen from here. Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ Geben Sie Ihren Lottotipp gerne auf den letzten Dr?cker ab?Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice gibt's keine Warteschlangen. http://tippen2.web.de/?x=9
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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Seien Sie dabei und sichern Sie sich 100% Leistung, 100% Pr?mie und 100% Zufriedenheit. Jetzt unter http://club.web.de/?mc=021105
Installing from linux solved the problem. Thanks for all your help. Mario PS: As long as I have your attention...will syslinux recognize any other forms of compression (besides gzip) on the initrd.img file? I'm thinking specifically of bzip2, here. -----Original Message-----> Did you try to install syslinux from linux? Maybe this will have more > success, since some versions of WinXX are just braindead.