Hi, Jerome. Sorry for the late reply. But, I've pretty much given up trying to run FreeDOS on this system. I tried installing it to the CF Card directly as a raw disk via Virtual Box, but it just wouldn't use the disk. I kept getting an LBA cache write error. I found that if I just hit "retry" over and over, it seemed to get past that, but only so far, and nothing would happen. I'm really not sure how much more I can do or what else to try. It just doesn't work for me. :-(
Thanks anyway. Stephen On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:07 PM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the long delay. > > On Aug 24, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Stephen Blomstedt <scblomst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Good afternoon. > > I've been trying to install FreeDOS 1.2 on an ancient AST Bravo MS-T 4/66d > with a 486 DX2 66MHz CPU that I've fixed up, but have run into an issue > that really makes no sense. Essentially, when I go to install, it doesn't > see the disk and the message "No fixed disk present" displays all over the > screen. > > Then a message pops up saying, "Drive C: does not appear to be > partitioned. Do you want to partition your drive?" Selecting yes seemingly > does nothing as when I reboot and try again, I get the same error. > > After exiting to DOS, I try running fdisk, and I get the same message. > > Strangely, when I run "vinfo /v /d C:", it displays "Drive is ready". > > I did read that you might have this issue if you have a disk controller > add-in card installed, which I do and I need it because physical damage to > the MoBo made it so the built-in floppy controller can't properly detect > the drive (any drive). However, I use the built-in HDD controller for my > IDE-to-CF card adapter. > > I've used MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows boot disks before with no problems. > > Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Is there anything I can do to get > around this? > > > Hard to say exactly what the issue is. > > But, there are a couple things you can try. > > Since you know it works, the easiest thing to do would be just to > partition and format the drive using an MS-DOS boot disk. Then attempt to > install FreeDOS again. If you still cannot install, then you may be able > install manually. > > > Thanks in advance! > > -Stephen > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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