Hi, > do you have BIOS-support? My extern hard disk is mapped by BIOS and > is accessable like any other hard disk. Maybe a BIOS-update helps?
Indeed. You can only boot from USB disk if your BIOS supports USB disk! Because you cannot load drivers BEFORE you boot ;-). > > I searched the last month for an answer how to install FreeDOS > > on an USB-HD, > > but found nothing. Google hadn't help me, too. Basically because if your BIOS supports USB disks, you can use them like any other disk, and if not, you cannot boot from them. > > If I boot the FreeDOS Disc > > with my USB-HD plugged in, I get every time an "InitDisk Illegal > > relocation entry". > > Then the starting process is dead and nothing happens anymore. That is an interesting error. It means that FreeDOS kernel cannot move itself to the HMA because something is screwed up in the interrupt handler system. It might mean that your hardware or BIOS uses memory above the first 1 MB in a way which breaks DOS=HIGH handling. Try if you can boot when you do not load HIMEM. If not even that works, then maybe your BIOS has bad USB drivers and you got some data errors during boot. Another possible error is that the geometry or partition layout of the USB disk differ between when you partitioned it and when DOS sees it, causing some confusion during boot. If it is the case that you boot FreeDOS from ANOTHER disk, cdrom or harddisk, while the USB disk is only plugged in but does not contain DOS, and DOS still gets confused, then maybe your BIOS drivers for USB are bad. Or maybe the BIOS drivers cannot handle the case where both a bootable CDROM and a USB harddisk are present at the same time... Eric PS: Arkady, I did get your mail, but I still have to figure out some things about the various kernel versions, so I did not reply yet, sorry! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
