Hello all, I'm wondering if anyone who uses FreeDOS on QEMU would be interested willing to help me track down a new issue I'm seeing. (I run QEMU on MacOS 10.13.6, which may or may not matter...)
Here's a demo of the problem. Suppose I want to use FDIMPLES to install some software, and I start FreeDOS with this command: > qemu-system-i386 -rtc base=localtime -soundhw pcspk -drive format=raw,file=freedos.img -cdrom FD12CD.iso where freedos.img is an image containing a working FreeDOS installation, and FD12CD.iso is of course the installation CD image. With QEMU version 2.12.0, this works fine... for example, once FreeDOS loads, I can do a DIR D: to see the files on the CD, and start FDIMPLES to install the packages I want. In the recent QEMU 3.0.0 release, however, the same qemu startup command no longer results in the CD being loaded in FreeDOS. For example, once inside FreeDOS: C:> DIR D: Volume in drive D Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? My first question is: can anyone else reproduce this? If so, then I'd appreciate any ideas on how to go about tackling it (besides reverting to QEMU 2.12.0, which incidentally is exactly what I'm doing... but if there is an fact a bug at play here, hopefully we can at the least report it, and maybe even make some headway on eliminating it). Thanks much, John --- Some additional info: I just noticed that during the FreeDOS boot sequence (with either version of QEMU... even the working one...), the autoexec.bat: DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UDVD2.SYS /D:FDCD0001 results in this: UDVD2, 4-30-3013. CD/DVD name is FDCD0001. BAD Controller at I-O address C040h, Chip I.D. 80867010h. CD0; IDE0 Secondary-master, QEMU DVD-ROM, PIO.
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