I have a customer with similar setup, using 256MB CF-Cards. Funnily enuf, directly formatting that cards with RUFUS using the current FreeDos ISO results in the same error as you describe. I survived with partition it with RUFUS and Boot-Selection “builtIn FreeDos”. Then I just copy the content of the current FreeDos ZIP/ISO onto the Card. I.e. Replacing Kernel.sys, Command.com, Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, then adding the “Freedos” folder, and deleting the “Locale” folder.
Haven’t yet investigated why the builtin image works as bootable, but the external image doesn’t. With kind regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro<http://www.msdn.com/vfoxpro> Evangelist Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional<http://mvp.microsoft.com/de-de/overview.aspx>" from 1996 to 2009, "Servoy Valued Professional<http://www.servoy.com/>“ 2011 My XING Profile<https://www.xing.com/profile/Juergen_Wondzinski>, and LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/wondzinski> and Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/juergen.wondzinski> and Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/wondzinski> and….. GCS d+ s:+ a+++ C++ !U P--- L E? W++ N++ o-- K--? w+++ O? !M--? V-- PS PE !Y? !PGP t 5 X R tv- b DI+ D? G e++ h-- r+++ y+++ Von: Jeremy Leonard via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Gesendet: Sonntag, 27. November 2022 05:02 An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jeremy Leonard <jere...@elite4god.com> Betreff: [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot. I have a physical AMD 386DX 40Mhz system. It runs MS dos ok but hangs when booting freedoms. BIOS post completes, says Loading FreeDOS then hangs. CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots but still hangs. I'm using a CF card at my hdd. It's a 4g card with a 512mb partition. This is all the BIOS sees. This works under msdos. I've tried imaging the cf card in another pc and installing directly from the free dos floppy install. Both yield the same result. How can I troubleshoot this? I have 17mb RAM, trident vga card with 1mb ram, winbond io controller, 3com 3c509 nic.
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