Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi Eric, I have tried the /FORCE:CHS and it did not help. Cheers, Dimitris On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Dimitris, > > > I retried sys c: from the 2031 bootdisk and it failed to boot, hanging at > > Loading FreeDOS, hard drive working like mad, I rebooted with the s

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22 - EDIT CPU load

Here I was afraid to say anything about my CPU heat index! On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > > On Jul 20, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> > >>> I just downloaded the bootable FD 1.2pre

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, So now I have only the master HDD on primary IDE connected and the floppy. It did not change anything. I was able to confirm the CHS/settings - BIOS has a menu called IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION. When all the jumpers etc are correct, it will detect the drive and offer 3 options - LBA, LARGE, NORMA

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:56 PM, wrote: > On Jul 20, 2016 12:57 PM, "Dimitris Zilaskos" wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > Since I now have a bootable C: drive, can't we just compare the working > MBR/boot sector with the non working one? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dimitris > > > > Would you

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

> On Jul 20, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >> On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos > > wrote: >> […] >> Dimitris > > I have a few silly ques

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos > wrote: > […] > > Dimitris > > > I have a few silly questions. > > You have verified the drive has the correct jumpers set? > Correct, master / slave > > You are not trying to u

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22 - EDIT CPU load

> On Jul 20, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Eric Auer wrote: >> >>> I just downloaded the bootable FD 1.2pre22 CD and booted a VM in >>> VirtualBox. I see `FDAPM APMDOS` in autoexec.bat. No IDLEHALT in >>> FDCONFIG.SYS. CPU also spikes to 100

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

> On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > […] > Dimitris I have a few silly questions. You have verified the drive has the correct jumpers set? You are not trying to use cable select mode? You are using the correct position on the IDE cable? You are plugged into the primary

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

On Jul 20, 2016 12:57 PM, "Dimitris Zilaskos" wrote: > > Hi > > > Since I now have a bootable C: drive, can't we just compare the working MBR/boot sector with the non working one? > > Cheers, > > Dimitris > Would you please copy kernel.sys from the 2042 release to your C drive and see if it

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi Dimitris, > I retried sys c: from the 2031 bootdisk and it failed to boot, hanging at > Loading FreeDOS, hard drive working like mad, I rebooted with the same > floppy, did the same thing, and it booted. Tried again with sys 3.6e, > hang again, tried again with sys 2.6, was able to boot again.

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Dimitris, > > > So I did, with sys 3.6e - FreeDOS 1.2 pre floppy: > > > > sys c: /FORCE:CHS - system hangs on reboot > > sys c: /FORCE:LBA , followed by sys CONFIG c:\kernel.sys FORCELBA=1 > > GLOBALENABLELBA=1 > > > > - system tries to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22 - EDIT CPU load

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> I just downloaded the bootable FD 1.2pre22 CD and booted a VM in >> VirtualBox. I see `FDAPM APMDOS` in autoexec.bat. No IDLEHALT in >> FDCONFIG.SYS. CPU also spikes to 100% when I run `edit autoexec.bat`. > > I remember that this is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi Dimitris, > So I did, with sys 3.6e - FreeDOS 1.2 pre floppy: > > sys c: /FORCE:CHS - system hangs on reboot > sys c: /FORCE:LBA , followed by sys CONFIG c:\kernel.sys FORCELBA=1 > GLOBALENABLELBA=1 > > - system tries to BOOT, hangs at Loading FreeDOS , the hard drive > works like mad until

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, I have tried sys 2.6 with 2042, I checked and sys CONFIG reported both FORCELBA and GLOBALENABLELBA were set to 0. Reboot resuts in a hang at Loading FreeDOS, hard drive and the floppy leds are lit up and hard drive works like mad. Cheers, Dimitris On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Dimitris

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Dimitris, > > long analysis follows, some suggestions at the bottom of this mail :-) > > > Thank you for your reply. I tried few kernel and here are the results: > > I gather you mean "you tried the SYS of a few kernels together with

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi Dimitris, long analysis follows, some suggestions at the bottom of this mail :-) > Thank you for your reply. I tried few kernel and here are the results: I gather you mean "you tried the SYS of a few kernels together with the corresponding KERNEL versions"? My focus is on the SYS activity, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

By the way, Rugxulo... :-) https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/specials/ After only a few years, my domain should be up more often again :-) So in case you have hidden it in LSM links, it can be shown again. Cheers, Eric > Heck, since you say you have Debian (but is that separate machine?), > you cou

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22 - EDIT CPU load

Hi Louis, > I just downloaded the bootable FD 1.2pre22 CD and booted a VM in > VirtualBox. I see `FDAPM APMDOS` in autoexec.bat. No IDLEHALT in > FDCONFIG.SYS. CPU also spikes to 100% when I run `edit autoexec.bat`. I remember that this is a problem with certain EDIT versions. Of course IDLEH

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, Thank you for your reply. I tried few kernel and here are the results: 2041_86f16 : floppy boots but no hard drives detected 2041_86f32: boots, detects HDD, sys is successfull but hard drive fails to boot 2041_386f32: as above 2039_86f32: as above 2035a: as above 2020: fails to boot even from