Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >> MS-DOS works well with MS-HIMEM loaded by PXE the same way. >> FreeDOS just hangs while trying to load MS-HIMEM. > > Rugxulo, is that something that has happened before? > I am not sure but this sounds vaguely familiar. The > driver (from Win98-DOS?) might depend on some property > of the Win98 / DOS boot loader and/or kernel here...
I've not really used MS-DOS in recent years. I know so-called "MS-DOS 8" auto-loads some kind of built-in XMS driver (bundled within IO.SYS ??), but it's not something I know the details of. I have never tried to mix MS HIMEM with FreeDOS. Some combinations obviously won't play as well together, just due to lack of testing (bugs) if nothing else. For FreeDOS, I always stick to XMGR these days, although HIMEMX is the traditional choice. Even (J)EMM386 has some compatibility issues with some (buggy) third-party tools, so I don't load that by default either. Actually, that may be your problem here, trying to use EMM386 and DOS/32A, they don't always play nice together. >> FreeDOS loads HIMEMX fine with DOS=LOW, but any DOS/32A application has >> failed with memory corruption error (6004). > > At least it loads - that gives the possibility to try some > of the HIMEMX command line options to see if any of those > fixes the memory corruption... Which DOS32A.EXE? 9.1.2 or older 7.x (still bundled with OpenWatcom)? You could also (presumably) try one of the other "mostly" compatible replacements, e.g. Causeway (CWSTUB.EXE) or PMODE/W or D3X instead. No guarantees, though, but presumably they may not have the same bugs. (Actually, doesn't DOS/32A prefer its own DPMI over VCPI? Yeah, that's a whole other mess, trying to see what it prefers or tries to use and in what order.) >> FreeDOS + JEMMEX (NOEMS) loads fine, DOS32/A app (curl) works fine, but >> "bupdater" from Asus has failed as I've posted screenshort early. Your CURL.EXE uses DOS/32A? Did you build it yourself? I'm not aware of any public builds of Curl aside from an old DJGPP one on Doug Kaufmann's page (which of course doesn't use DOS/32A, only CWSDPMI or similar): http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/curl-7.10.5-DOS.zip (Yes, that's a DJGPP build and comes with CWSDPMI.) > Note that if you use JEMMEX, it will only switch the real A20 > at special moments, mostly during start. From the application > side, it will simulate the A20 by changing 386+ memory maps. JEMM is kinda weird. I'm not sure it's totally safe by default. Well, anyways, I always use "X=TEST I=TEST" just to be sure. I don't really understand the details, you'd have to ask Japheth (or search the BTTR Forums, maybe he mentioned it somewhere, dunno). >> I can try to load FreeDOS from USB stick instead of PXE. > > That might also be interesting, yes. You mean like via RUFUS (bare bones) install? http://rufus.akeo.ie/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
