Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Björn Morell
I do not know how freedos talk to services but I load FreeDos with GRUB on one machine and with LILO on another one. Den 2022-12-13 kl. 22:02, skrev Roderick Klein: On 13-12-22 21:41, Björn Morell wrote: I think GRUB boot loader could help as it is an UEFI application. SD with one nix partitio

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Roderick Klein
On 13-12-22 21:41, Björn Morell wrote: I think GRUB boot loader could help as it is an UEFI application. SD with one nix partition and one FAT partition for FreeDos 2 Gb or less. The problem is tha when you can load DOS on a UEFI system. What BIOS services does FreeDOS talk to ? Roderick

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Björn Morell
forgot the link https://linuxhint.com/boot-usb-using-grub/ Den 2022-12-13 kl. 20:37, skrev Walter Vermeir: Op 13/12/2022 om 18:05 schreef Jerome Shidel: Did you try to boot the LegacyCD or the LiveCD? I tried both. And also tried KolibriOS http://kolibrios.org/en/ My new old laptop has 32

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Björn Morell
I think GRUB boot loader could help as it is an UEFI application. SD with one nix partition and one FAT partition for FreeDos 2 Gb or less. Den 2022-12-13 kl. 20:37, skrev Walter Vermeir: Op 13/12/2022 om 18:05 schreef Jerome Shidel: Did you try to boot the LegacyCD or the LiveCD? I tried bo

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Walter Vermeir
Op 13/12/2022 om 18:05 schreef Jerome Shidel: Did you try to boot the LegacyCD or the LiveCD? I tried both. And also tried KolibriOS http://kolibrios.org/en/ My new old laptop has 32mb RAM. KolibriOS needs 8mb RAM. Looks interesting. But also did not boot. The bios settings has only the l

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Dec 13, 2022, at 12:14 PM, Roderick Klein wrote: > > On 13-12-22 17:26, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Are you certain that the machine you are trying to install FreeDOS is not >> UEFI only and supports BIOS (Legacy) boot? And, that is enabled in the BIOS >> settings? >> >> Most modern Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Roderick Klein
On 13-12-22 17:26, Jerome Shidel wrote: Are you certain that the machine you are trying to install FreeDOS is not UEFI only and supports BIOS (Legacy) boot? And, that is enabled in the BIOS settings? Most modern Linux installers can boot both ways. Unfortunately, UEFI is not an option for Free

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 13, 2022, at 11:46 AM, Walter Vermeir wrote: > > p 13/12/2022 om 17:26 schreef Jerome Shidel: >> Are you certain that the machine you are trying to install FreeDOS is not >> UEFI only and supports BIOS (Legacy) boot? And, that is enabled in the BIOS >> settings? >> >> Most modern L

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Walter Vermeir
p 13/12/2022 om 17:26 schreef Jerome Shidel: Are you certain that the machine you are trying to install FreeDOS is not UEFI only and supports BIOS (Legacy) boot? And, that is enabled in the BIOS settings? Most modern Linux installers can boot both ways. Unfortunately, UEFI is not an option for

Re: [Freedos-user] failing to create bootable install media (or at least boot from it)

2022-12-13 Thread Jerome Shidel
Are you certain that the machine you are trying to install FreeDOS is not UEFI only and supports BIOS (Legacy) boot? And, that is enabled in the BIOS settings? Most modern Linux installers can boot both ways. Unfortunately, UEFI is not an option for FreeDOS at present.