Hi, On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Bill Haught <wlhaughtpr...@att.net> wrote: > > I need to reinstall Windows anyway, so I thought I'd try installing Freedos > first since I have a USB flash drive > that boots on two computers I have access to but not on my computer. I have > already included my system > information in the thread "Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos". I believe > the problem two problems > are related and boil down to BIOS settings or hardware incompatibility. > > "Install to harddisk" and "Create drive C:" reboots the computer. > "Boot from system harddisk" works right, bringing up the GRUB menu. > > I have multiple partitions and would like to install to the one of my choice.
Try installing manually, i.e. "fdisk, fdapm coldboot, format, sys". I assume you know the drill. :-) Also, which FDISK are you trying to use? Presumably FD Fdisk? Perhaps (since someone mentioned SATA) that SPFdisk would work better for you?? > Any Ideas? FAQs I should read? http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/fdisk.htm > USB Flash Drive: TOSHIBA TransM Maybe this particular jump drive is old or defective? Can you get another OS (e.g. Fedora via liveUSB) working on it? Or can you use another jump drive entirely? Have you tried similar tools on this jump drive? Can you try UNetBootIn or RUFUS? http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://rufus.akeo.ie/ > How-to used: http://chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/bootable-usb/howto/ " This HOWTO is rather terse. In October 2013 I wrote a new HOWTO explaining how to generate your own bootable FreeDOS image file, suitable for dd'ing onto a USB stick or booting via PXE. I think the new HOWTO is more elaborate than the one you are reading right now, so please take a look at it. " So, erm, please try the "new" HOWTO, and see if that works better: http://chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/bootable-usb/image-generation-howto/ > BIOS settings: > > Secure Virtual Machine Mode: Enabled > > AMD Cool 'N' Quiet: Enabled > USB Operation Mode: High Speed > > ACPI Suspend Type: S3 > Remote Wake Up:Enabled Try disabling any (or all) of these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
