Re: [Freedos-user] Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos

2014-07-15 Thread Bill Haught
I used the "FreeDos bootable USB flash drive HOWTO" not the img file supplied on the web site.  Doing the latter it or using the "FreeDos bootable image generation HOWTO" causes problems, for example, when booting I got disk geometry problems.  I didn't follow all the directions exactly, since I

Re: [Freedos-user] Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos

2014-07-15 Thread Louis Santillan
So, you followed the instructions exactly? What was the output for "dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-memstick-2-256MB.img of=/dev/sdz bs=512k"? What is the output of "fdisk /dev/sdz"? On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Bill Haught wrote: > > > > > > USB flash drive > > > --

Re: [Freedos-user] Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos

2014-07-15 Thread Bill Haught
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Re: [Freedos-user] Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos

2014-07-15 Thread Bill Haught
In case you missed it, I am talking about a flash drive.  Also, when using the howto mentioned in the previous post, I used Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which has a highly invasive and unsupported modification of SYSLINUX called gfxboot. ---

[Freedos-user] Blinking Cursor when booting Freedos

2014-07-15 Thread Bill Haught
I got to the point where I got a blinking cursor in the top left corner of the screen when booting Freedos.  I decided to try booting from two other computers and from what I can tell, Freedos works on the other two computers. On the computer where Freedos isn't working, there aren't a whole lot