Arkady V.Belousov wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >sn> h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) >sn> I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the >sn> screen are: >sn> Booting from local disk... >sn> Virus!!! > > This may be message from BIOS (if there is turned on option "Check BOOT >Viruses", then it monitors writing to MBR).
The BIOS's warning msg is different. I saw the BIOS's msg too - later when using Fdisk. IIRC, the exact text "Virus!!!" is in the PART 2.37 MBR code (in its "compact boot manager"). As I reported, it doesn't seem to hurt anything; it just looks bad. >sn> q) Skip CD-Rom boot (try next boot device) >sn> NO ROM BASIC >sn> SYSTEM HALTED > > This is not FreeDOS. I know. >sn> Obviously this isn't an IBM PC. FWIW SBM's "Quit to BIOS" option >sn> gets this result too. > > Of course. This is original IBM BIOS architecture - when there are no >bootable media, BIOS pass control to INT19, where in original BIOSes was >reside built-in BASIC interpreter. But this BASIC very long ago not included >into BIOSes, and message says about this. I know. >sn> Editorial comment: >sn> Obviously, some of these results are not ideal. > > What you want from FreeDOS in given case? What do *I* want? Nothing. I'm just testing the release CD and reporting the results. I will ask this question: If FreeDOS is released as is, and users start seeing these msgs on their PCs, will they know that the problem is *not* caused by FreeDOS? -Eddie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
