The eltorito.sys is no use for FreeDOS, it is only for booting from the CD.
To access the CD when booted from the CD, you need to load a regular CD driver like UIDE. The problem is that it works with only a fraction of existing hardware end is also picky about memory driver. I believe that there are conflicts with memdisk loader... You can see in my CD that I have a first green menu screen to select various memory manager and Driver options, but even with all those optins it works not everywhere... That is why I made a bigger image and put all I want into it, this way it works *always* :) Alain Em 20-01-2012 11:39, Bob Cochran escreveu: > Hi Eric, > > Thank you very much for your help with this, and I am going to try your > method this weekend also. I want to learn both your method and the > isolinux method. I still need to get that motherboard BIOS update done, > which is my immediate goal. I also need to be able to update the > firmware for an LSISAS1068 chip that is on a PCI Express adapter card, I > have 3 of these cards to update. Now you see where my motivation comes > from. Several times a year at least I have a need to learn and > understand DOS. That is my longer term goal. > > I will buy some USB flash drives and play with them using the advice you > give me below. > > One question. When you say that I must copy config.sys, and autoexec.bat > you also mean I must edit these to load the drivers my system needs > after the copying, right? For example I will need to edit the copied > config.sys or autoexec.bat to load eltorito.sys and thereby have access > to both the CD/DVD drive and USB devices? Since my keyboard is USB based > this is an important question. > > Thanks > > Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
