On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > [..] > While it is not impossible there is a bizarre bug in VASK, it works > fine in the other virtual machines and real hardware that has been > tested. I highly suspect there is an issue with the PocketDOS BIOS > implementation. Unfortunately, I do not have any WindowsCE devices > and cannot perform any tests. Therefore, I will be unable to see if I > can create a work-around solution or find a bug that may only effect > PocketDOS.
I agree, this seems like a BIOS compatibility issue in the PocketDOS BIOS implementation. As a debugging step, it would be interesting to boot the PocketDOS VM with the FreeDOS Floppy Distro boot floppy and use F8 to turn singlestepping ON. Accept the "SHELL=COMMAND.COM" line, but do not accept the "\FDAUTO.BAT" line. You should get put into a DOS prompt. That at least demonstrates that FreeDOS will boot on PocketDOS. You can also type: PATH A:\FREEDOS\BIN ..to run a few commands, like FDISK and FORMAT. This is far from a useful FreeDOS environment, but at least you can run FDISK and FORMAT to make the hard disk bootable with the kernel and Command.com: FDISK 1 /AUTO FORMAT /S C: I suppose after that, you could run the install process manually. But the process is different for the floppy install and I didn't dig into the SETUP.BAT to see what command you might run to do that. I have a memory that it involves SLICEREX. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
