Hi,
fdisk /mbr:80 did not change anything. Here some BIOS screens:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_Wed09TVi1YY3VNR2s
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeWDdxWXRrY2NpWEU
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeQ3ctSS14Z1RINlk
Here is a video of the system booting from FreeDOS 1.2 floppy:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeTEtKU1kyNGp3SWc
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >>>>
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