> On Jul 18, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Jerome,
>
> From what I can tell I never get past the boot loader to be struck by himemx.
>
Ok try this:
Boot your modified FDI floppy.
It should detect FreeDOS has been already installed and go straight to the
command prompt.
Run "MBRZAP"
This will launch a special part of FDI in advanced mode to force update your
MBR with the FreeDOS boot loader.
-------
During investigations of systems that had boot loader issues not being updated,
I discovered that there is no way to force the sys command to updated the MBR.
Sometimes, it just won't do it regardless of what you tell it to do. It can be
forced using fdisk.
There is another possible issue. Your MBR may be fine. However, FDI may have
not been able to identify the drive or partition that FreeDOS was installed
onto. You should run fdisk and verify that the FreeDOS partition is set as
ACTIVE.
Jerome
Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and
incorrect spell-corrected words.
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitris
>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
>> Did you change the installed config?
>>
>> It uses himemx as well.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and
>> incorrect spell-corrected words.
>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:46 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
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