Hi Stephanos, > Regarding the F5 suggestion. This was not possible. With the memory > stick in the USB port and after turning the laptop on, even while > pressing F5 constantly the memory stick boots just the same, to the user > menu. If I continue to press F5 constantly when I select fdos there is > no visible difference. And of course I execute the file with the same > result.
I was rather hoping someone else would jump in here with the correct suggestions as I'm not sure where in the docs all the available keys are. All I could find was some MS-DOS suggestions for later versions that came with Windows 95: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121001-00/?p=6443 Probably many of these don't apply to FreeDOS. The boot menu (where you saw the FDOS option) I think at least gives you the option of pressing F8 to toggle single-stepping, which will ask you to answer yes or no for each thing that tries to load. You could do this and just answer N for everything, which although a bit tedious would achieve the same result. One other thing - the service tag you're using, that matches the service tag shown in the F2 BIOS setup? Bit of a wild guess but since the DOS and Windows programs won't work I am just wondering whether the laptop has been repaired at some point but not with the original parts. Although unlikely, if a motherboard from a similar but different model had been used, the service tag shown in the BIOS would be different to the service tag label on the laptop body and could explain the issue. Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
