Op 12-2-2012 16:07, kqt4a...@gmail.com schreef: > I got a boot floppy and ran fdisk on the harddrive followed by format c: /s /u > When I try to boot from the hd I get "FreeDOS" and the floppy drive light > comes on > How do configure it to point to the hd
I've seen this recently in Bochs when trying to start from a bootdisk, I suspect there's something odd with regard to the bootsector used/generated by FreeDOS. Could you run FDISK and check if drive C: is an ACTIVE primary FAT partition? If it is, then only the bootsector can be blamed. For now I'll have to recommend continuing to boot from floppy till there's a solution. To speed things slightly up a little bit you could generate a textfile A:\FDCONFIG.SYS which will load files mostly from harddisk instead of diskette. That leaves only kernel and FDCONFIG.SYS to be loaded from floppy. Alternatively there might be bootsectors for floppies allowing to either boot from harddisk (MBR or bootsector) or chain to harddisk kernel file. That way you'd avoid having to load kernel from floppy, which is relatively slow. A:\FDCONFIG.SYS contents: SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT ( depending on if your machine has at least 2MB memory, and if this XMS driver works: ) DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\FDXMS286.SYS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
