Most of the K6-2 boards I know of are good for boot on CD, if a bit shaky with a few CD's. CD-R's I used to have a little trouble with occasionally but... Anyhow, The K6-2's were identical boards nearly to the P2's, Socket7, so... shoudln't be any different. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 1:02 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS Bootable CD
> > Hi, Keith sends extra information: > > > The error appears after the lines that display the hd, pri, chs, start and > > size and the bios reported 0 sectors/track assuming 63. old int13=f000e024 > > int15=f000f859, new int13=9f400008 int15=9f40027c. The last invalid opcode > > says f000 9f40 0216 f601 e003 0e00 0010 1504 0002 1100 f0ec f601 f003. > > He is using a K6-2 based system, > Looks like an incompatibility between the used ISOLINUX MEMDISK version > and the BIOS? I wonder if it helps to boot the system through Smart Boot > Manager from a floppy instead of using the BIOS "boot from CD-ROM" mode. > > Explanation: MEMDISK hooks int 13 and int 15 by allocating a bit of > low memory through the 40:[13] value (usually 640k minus something for > things like BIOS EBDA, EzDrive/OnTrack/viruses/...: MEMDISK uses 2k) > and a chunk of int 15 memory. Then it simulates a disk drive which is > initialized from a file (disk image) which is loaded into the int 15 memory. > > I cannot see interesting things in the invalid opcode dump, but maybe > the partition information (hd/pri/chs/start/size...) displayed by the > FreeDOS kernel is interesting as well? The int13/int15 display should > show BEFORE the FreeDOS kernel loads as far as I know. > > Does it work to boot other bootable CD-ROMs (e.g. small Linux rescue > systems)? Which ISOLINUX versions are used? I do not have the URL for > Smart Boot Manager around, but I think there is a bootable floppy > download in the FreeDOS beta 9 ... download area which contains SBM > and is already prepared to cooperate with the CD-ROM. > > Eric. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
