Hi Jim,
I am working with primarily arm computers (Raspberry Pi primarily) and as of
now the virtualization is poor to nonexistent. Since I have several programs I
worked with when I was employed (before retirement) I ended up with a couple of
dell thin systems which also are short on the memory and speed for using a
virtual system. So I stay with my multi-boot process and it seems to work for
me. One thing I do not understand is why I install FreeDOS-Live onto one of my
x86 systems and it uses eltorito to do the install and no problems. Next I
boot from the hard drive and running the same exact code as was used during
install it cannot find the cdrom at this time. I am hitting my head against a
brick wall as to what I am doing wrong.
Matt
On Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 10:51:06 AM PST, Jim Hall via Freedos-user
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM peter--- via Freedos-user
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Then rebooted and FreeDOS came to life. Good. =8~)
>
> Still wanted to multiboot and therefore installed Boot Manager.
> That allowed booting Oberon in /dev/sdb2.
> So the FreeDOS installer didn't cobber /dev/sdb2.
>
> Then tried booting FreeDOS via Boot Manager. No luck.
[..]
> Anyone else have FreeDOS working in a multiboot setup?
> Ideas? Any clues in the screenshot?
Using a boot manager is an excellent idea when you need to boot
multiple operating systems from one physical PC. I used to do this all
the time from the 1990s to the early 2000s to try out different
things.
But the idea of a virtual machine is to *isolate* operating systems to
their own virtual space. With a virtual machine system like QEMU, you
don't need to use multiboot -- just set up one virtual machine for
FreeDOS, and a new virtual machine to run Oberon.
While multiboot should work, you seem to be making this harder than it
needs to be.
Maybe you answered this in a previous email (I'm starting to get
caught up on email) but why not set up a separate virtual machine for
Oberon?
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