Hi Geraldo, please do never send files to a mailing list.

> Hi Guys, It seems command.com is missing
> could you try any iso from this site?
> www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/



>> The image shows (why on earth cannot people just cut and
>> paste the TEXT when you see text?) the following:

e820: 00000000 00100000 00000000 01ef9c00 1
e820: 00000000 01ff9c00 00000000 00002400 2
e820: 00000000 01ffd000 00000000 00003000 2
Ramdisk at 0x1f9c000, length 0x0003c4e4
Moving compressed data from 0x01f9c000 to 0x01f63600
gzip image: decompressed addr 0x01f9c000, len 0x0005a000: ok
command line: initrd=data/FDBOOT.IMG BOOT_IMAGE=data/memdisk
Disk is floppy, 360 K, C/H/S = 40/2/9
Total size needed = 1436 bytes, allocating 2K
Old dos memory at 0x9fc00 (map says 0x9fc00), loading at 0x9f400
1588: 0x7a7f  15E801: 0x3c00 0x00f9
INT 13 08: Success, count = 0, BPT = f000:efdf
old: int13 = f000e3fe  int15 = f000f859
new: int13 = 9f400008  int15 = 9f40027c
Loading boot sector... booting...

>> what we see until here is isolinux booting memdisk which boots
>> a compressed bootable 360k diskette with dos from the cdrom...

FreeDOS kernel build 2036 cvs [version Aug 18 2006 compiled Aug 18 2006]
Kernel compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - 80386 CPU required - FAT32 support

>> copyright message about GPL2+ follows...

 - InitDiskBad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256
 Enter the full shell command line: _

>> what you see here is that the FreeDOS kernel tries to boot from
>> a disk which it cannot read at all. It does not open config sys,
>> it only tries to open command.com because this is the default.
>> Either the memdisk failed (int15 ext mem copy problem maybe?) or
>> the kernel tries to boot from C: on a system which has no real
>> or virtual harddisks visible to DOS (which uses the BIOS) at all.
>> You see that InitDisk does not list any partitions, for example.

Eric

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spambot protection when mentioning my email addr there, though.


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