Gotcha, Ill need to learn more about this, perhaps try a manual install. Is there any up to date guides for a manual installation?
Ive been using the freedos wiki as a guide, are there any better docs available? Particularly about MBR and SYS with freedos? On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:59 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > > Perhaps just a simple bootloader would fix the problem? I only know of > > modern linux ones, perhaps systemd-boot would work from arch? > > You can load DOS with many boot loaders including GRUB, > but that still usually relies on a working boot sector. > > If the MBR has a problem (as said, FDISK lets you install > one of the built-in templates if the one which was on your > harddisk before has a problem) then it may indeed help to > install a boot menu. Given that Win98 works for you, you > could simply keep the MBR from that. > > As said, you may have a problem with LBA, SYS or the MBR > contents. Even if your disk is not large enough to NEED > LBA, FreeDOS may still PREFER it unless you disable it. > > Our boot sectors are organized into "FAT12 or FAT16 > with automatic choice from CHS or LBA", "FAT32 with > CHS" and "FAT32 with LBA", as well as "OEMBOOT" which > is a configurable boot sector to boot different brands > of DOS kernels: > > https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/tree/master/boot > > As the docs explain, you can use SYS /OEM:FD to use the > OEM boot sector with FreeDOS settings. You can also use > various /FORCE options in case automatic choices would > be wrong, for example between CHS or LBA. See > > https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/docs/sys.txt > > No, you should not compile your own SYS, I am just > sharing the source code links as a way of explaining > the features of the SYS binary you already have :-) > > It is unusual that you are experiencing systematic boot > problems with FreeDOS, so it would help to get more fine > details of the issue in case a relevant bug causes that. > > Regards, Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Thank you very much, Andrew Ingram Fainman Group Graduate Student, UCSD Phone: (831)-320-3531 aj1ing...@gmail.com
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