I'm running QEMU 3.0.0 on Fedora 29. Works fine over here. This is the command line I use to launch QEMU:
qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk -device cirrus-vga -display gtk -hda /home/jhall/lib/qemu/drive_c.img -cdrom /home/jhall/lib/qemu/FD12CD.iso -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos -boot order=c I can run FDIMPLES from that, even though my FD12CD.iso is recognized as the E: drive, instead of D: (my D: drive is my /home/jhall/dos folder). I wrote an article about running FreeDOS under Linux using QEMU. I know you're running MacOS, but the QEMU command line should transfer just the same. https://opensource.com/article/17/10/run-dos-applications-linux Jim On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:48 PM John Haynes <johnh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
