Dimitris, For giggles, could you do two things? First, capture the BIOS screens for booting and IDE/HD parameters. Second, after installing FreeDOS to C: drive, run the command `fdisk /MBR:80`.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions. What I have tried so far: > > * Getting rid of himemx: this works - the boot process continues and the > installer tries to start. However the floppy drive works continuously like > mad, screen updates are slow, and I the installation appears to be stuck in > the 'Gathering information..' stage forever > * Replacing himemx with XMGR.SYS /T0 (kudos to Jack): Boot process > continues, everything is light speed fast compared to just getting rid of > himemx. > * Although installation of 1.2 finishes successfully, system fails to > boot, hangs right after BIOS system summary is displayed. > * sys c: does not help > * UDVD2 is able to detect the CDROM connected to the SB16 IDE interface. > Unfortunately only the CDROM drive that was supplied with sound card appears > to work there (MATSHITA CR-581-M), connecting other CDROMs that can actually > read modern CD-R causes the system to get stuck after memory test. So I have > to use a 1998 HITACHI CDR-8435 attached to the secondary VESA Local Bus IDE > for the installation. UDVD2 reports the SB16 CDROM drive in IDE1 - I would > expect that to be IDE2 for tertiary IDE so I may need to play with jumpers. > > I will try to sort out why the boot loader fails. > > Thanks! > > Dimitris > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Your driver is the problem this might be a case for the XCDROM.SYS driver >> combined with SHCDX86.COM - A quick way to find out download this file >> >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl-ow/files/xosl-ow116/BootMedia/BootFloppy/ >> and see if you have clean drive access. >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for the followup. Hitting F8 reveals HIMEMX triggering this >>> problem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeSWtGNXN0NmxxaU0 >>> >>> I have observed that the gibberish stops given sufficient time: >>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeVjVMalF6M2YtMTA >>> >>> Let me know what else I can try - I will recheck the floppies for >>> starters in case they went bad and check the rest of your suggestions. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Dimitris >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jul 18, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have tried it please see the output attached. This is endlessly >>>> scrolling after drives are detected. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeY2tOSXpNT2g3NUJWMWx6bFZlSFBjamE3VEFr >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, that isn’t very helpful. >>>> >>>> When you boot the floppy, can you press F8 to walk through the startup? >>>> What item in the configuration >>>> causes it to crash? >>>> >>>> Jerome >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and >>>> traffic >>>> patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols >>>> are >>>> consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, >>>> J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. 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