I originally was creating a new hard drive image. (Actually, I was just copying one I already had, but same result.) Plus in other tests before I did the original post, I sometimes unpartitioned and repartitioned, reformatted, etc. A variety.
Later, when I did the retests with bochs vs qemu, it was getting late and I was getting tired, so I just used an existing partitioned image and simply reformatted it for each test. So the only thing that was being kept was the partioning, which didn't seem to cause a problem with anything. As for the floppy images, they are all raw, uncompressed images. Otherwise the floppy wouldn't boot at all. I did just run a couple new tests. With fresh, unpartitioned, unformated disks. I can now get Dell Dos 3.30 to install and boot from C: Dos 3.20 still fails in both qemu and bochs. Dos 4.01 behaves a little differently, depending on its mood. Sometimes it'll fail during the boot floppy stage. Other times it'll fail when booting from C, sometimes with Qemu giving a fatal error and sometimes not. I may get yet more odd results if I used a seperate boot floppy (that presumably works) instead of the install disks. Some of these problems and inconsistancies may come down to: 1) Bugs in the original OS. 2) The OS not liking the newer hardware of Bochs & Qemu 3) The OS being customized for specific hardware, and doesnt like Bochs or Qemu. 4) The OS being a bit more picky about the partitioning and formatting than newer versions. 5) The OS being warez of unknowned origin. I'm beginning to suspect that number 5 is a major factor... _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
