Hi Eric, On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 20:10, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi STF! > >> No, but I've dug a little bit deeper in the ISO file, and I think the >> problem is elsewhere, but of course, correct me if I'm wrong. It >> seems that the real O/S is loaded from isolinux/data/fdboot.img. This >> fdboot.img is actually a gzip file containing another file called >> IMAGE. Unfortunately, I'm unable to check the format of this file. > > That file is simply a floppy image, most likely a 360k or 1440k one. > > You can open it with mtools, mount it via loopback, do the same on > the Mac command line, or use whatever graphical tools Windows or Mac > have to do the same in more user friendly way :-)
Yes, you're correct, that's just a floopy image. > As you will have guessed, the floppy image contains a kernel.sys or > a file of similar name which is simply a renamed copy of that file. I've put in kernel.sys and even sys.com but still it doesn't work. If you ask if I've tried the USB drivers the other users suggested, my answer is "no" because I've spent more than 2 hours searching for ISO tools and doing tests without any result (very frustrating). So, "too bad for it". Just for the record, OCZ (a very famous SSD manufacturer) provides firmware update tools running in Freedos (the packages are provided as ISO files) and they have the same USB keyboard problem. That's all it begins in my troubles (got to find a "good" PC which has PS/2 keyboard and support to SATA as IDE, etc, etc) Life is so complicated! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
