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Panic: MCB chain corrupted, system halted
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:49 am
by peterle
Also had this with an AWARD flashtool, wasnt really nice while flashing the mobo. Makes the bootdisk urgently useless for me or does this message only show with freedos????
THX
Panic : MCB corrupted chain
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:09 am
by kitutou2
Yes, I have the same problem. I use a Medion Laptop + Toshiba HDD + UBCD 3.3.
I have the message "MCB corrupted" everytime I launch freedos. Other boot disks (linux) boot fine. So I cannot run any soft working with freedos!
Fantastic!
FREE DOS no go
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:32 am
by expat83
Hi
I have an IBM R31 ThinkPad and I also cannot use anything that
starts off in FreeDos. (PANIC MCB Chain corrupted).
CD looks like it might be helpful, but..........
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:11 pm
by Victor Chew
Just to confirm, did you guys try one of the other memory options during startup (EMM386 etc.)? That might help.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:16 am
by CurlBoy
Yeah, you are right man!
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:05 am
by jaima
Victor Chew wrote:Just to confirm, did you guys try one of the other memory options during startup (EMM386 etc.)? That might help.
How do you do this thing with EMM386 ??
I tried it with the Insert-Taste, but I don't see this option "EMM386".
Thanks
jaima
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:18 am
by Victor Chew
I was referring to FreeDOS. When you launch FreeDOS, the first screen gives you a bunch of memory options to choose from.
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:18 am
by superchuck
Victor Chew wrote:I was referring to FreeDOS. When you launch FreeDOS, the first screen gives you a bunch of memory options to choose from.
Why is that? (I've been using UBCD v2.4 for years with no problems -- and no "memory options" to choose from.)
Now that I am trying to get v4.1.1 up and working I am finding that all of the apps that use "dosubcd.igz" don't work. I have tried a number of these "memory options". Almost all fail - with different errors.
I've searched this forum and found some stuff relating to an updated copy of FreeDOS -- but that doesn't seem to work either.
What is the solution to this?
Is there a post on how to use a DOS v6.2 or Win98 boot floppy to start the apps instead of FreeDOS?
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:42 am
by Icecube
Try UBCD50b12 and see if the problem persists.
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:08 am
by superchuck
Icecube wrote:Try UBCD50b12 and see if the problem persists.
OK -- I'm downloading it now. Will be able to burn a CD and test sometime on Monday.
However, how about explaining what's going on with the "memory options"?
Why do they appear?
And... is there a post on how to create a DOS 6.20 or Win98 boot floppy so we could use that instead of FreeDOS?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:59 pm
by superchuck
I burned v5 iso to CD -- NO JOY!! (same "memory management" screen appears).