[Freedos-user] SOLVED: Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-06 Thread Jen via Freedos-user
On Friday, March 6, 2020, 9:07:54 p.m. EST, Jerome Shidel wrote: > “Let me clarify... I don’t recommend running ZAPMBR.BAT on a > multi-boot or multi-drive system. But, it doesn’t do anything > you can’t do manually... > > Depending on a couple things. Try telling sys to update both > the sys

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-06 Thread Jen via Freedos-user
On Friday, March 6, 2020, 8:12:43 p.m. EST, Louis Santillan wrote: > “A screenshot of your boot options screen would be useful too.” http://jen-lik.es/bootm @Louis Santillan:  My response to your other question is awaiting moderator approval because it was too long and exceeded 40KB., but it

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-06 Thread Jen via Freedos-user
On Friday, March 6, 2020, 05:20:05 p.m. EST, Louis Santillan wrote: > … “what does the following”  > … “‘D:\> dir C:\*.* /w’”  > … “return?” … [FDOS]·[GEMAPPS]···AUTOEXEC.BAT···COMMAND.COM···DEVICE.RAW FDCONFIG.SYS···GEM.BAT·KERNEL.SYS·NIC.TXT···SETUP.BAT SHELL.RAW··

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-06 Thread Jen via Freedos-user
On Thursday, March 5, 2020, 06:05:49 p.m. EST, Dan Schmidt wrote> … “I would create a *2GB* boot partition and format it FAT16, and install> FreeDOS to it.  My recollection is that FAT32 support was a work in> progress in FreeDOS when real development ended.” > … > “I think your fundamental prob

[Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread Jen via Freedos-user
I’m trying to install FreeDOS onto the SSD hard drive of my ThinkPad W520 4284‑WZN copied to RAM from a DVD I have, using its internal DVD‑RW drive.   · In the UEFI BIOS [version 8BET62WW (1.42)], I set the boot to “Legacy Only” & the ‘SATA Controller Mode Option’ to “Compatibility” mode (IDE mod