Hello Guys, I am new to the mailing list and retro computers in general, (mostly work on linux), but I've been having some problems with installation. I have a Pentium 2 233mhz, 128mb ram, and a compaq presario i486, 8mb of ram ive been trying to install freedos to. After the install and booting from hdd freedos, the pentium 2 gives disk read errors, and the i486 simply stays on black screen and never boots. However in the pentium 2 when I boot to any CD then boot to the hdd, it is able to read the hdd and boot to freedos. However the i486 I have not been able to get the cd/ floppy drive to work, but it can run dos off the hdd, and the pentium 2 can run dos or windows 98.
On the pentium 2, I use the same hdd and remake the partition, (delete partition, fdisk /mbr, new partition), I am able to install and boot directly from hdd windows 98 or dos. I have tried letting freedos use its own partition scheme, tried 2gb fat16 only, and tried 2gb fat32 only. All of them have the same problem. When freedos boots from cd, it also gives a warning if I have freedos installed on the hdd: initdisk warning using suspect partition pri:1 FS 06: with calculated values 260-254-63 instead of 261-254-63 cant get drive parameters for drive 01. I am guessing this is the cause of the boot error. I have also tried multiple drives, the current one I am using is is seagate barracuda 7200 at 200gb, width ide interface. Thank you very much, Andrew Ingram Fainman Group Graduate Student, UCSD Phone: (831)-320-3531 aj1ing...@gmail.com
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