Hello,
I bought a CF card and adapter, so waiting for those to arrive. I tried the
fdisk /bmbr command on both the installed fdisk and the live cd, both of
them give the syntax error… operation terminated. The other fdisk mbr
options work though. When the CF adapter arrives I should be able to get
Hello,
So I did the experiment, simply by using fdisk /mbr in the live cd of
freedos. The OS now is not bootable from hdd, and gives read error while
reading drive error. So definitely problem is fdisk /mbr command.
The gotek sees iso images of formatted floppy drives and reads them to a
computer
Hi Andrew,
So apart from the floppy cable problem, you say only
the Win98 MBR boots correctly, but the FreeDOS one
will not boot? You have re-formatted the partition
in DOS (by the way, better use SYS, not FORMAT /S),
but kept the partitions unchanged, so there could be
a problem with either FDI
Hello guys,
I was able to get both systems working correctly. I first formatted the
partition and wrote the mbr in Windows 98. Then in freedos I formatted the
filesystem and setup system files with format c: /s. I then used the
advanced installer to install without overriding the mbr, and after
res
Gotcha, thanks for the info. Its possible the mobo floppy controller is
broken. I haven't finished troubleshooting it yet.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 8:00 AM Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 18:05, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > 3) I havnt worked enough in getting the floppy working on the i386,
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 18:05, Andrew wrote:
>
> 3) I havnt worked enough in getting the floppy working on the i386, i think
> it has to do with a nonstandard ide connection.
Standard floppy drives are *not* IDE. They have their own connection
(34-way not 40-way) and this is attached to a floppy c
Hi Andrew,
On 9 Jun 2021, at 19:20, Eric Auer wrote:
9) I will also try the FDISK /INFO command for both situations
Enjoy. You could also use XFDISK, which is more user friendly,
but shows fewer details. Note that both also have pretty long
config files which let you (mis-) configure lots of
Maybe let's start with this: how is your HDD partitioned and do you use any
boot-loader utility to load FreeDOS? If so - how its FreeDOS section looks like?
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An additional fact to be aware of…
All the normal install media for FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 uses and always installs the
386 kernel with large file system support. Thats the CD media, USB media and CD
Boot Floppy.
However, the alternate x86 installer uses the 8086 kernel. The current version
of this
Gotcha thank you guys for the support, I have to work till the end of this
week but will try the recommendations after that. If I get it to work ill
let you know what the problem was. Cheers!
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 10:22 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Ive been using the freedos wiki as a guid
Hi Andrew,
> 1) The pentium 2 has LBA support, it sees even a 32gb windows 98 partition
> no problem. i486 has no LBA support, so I keep the partition below 2gb. It
> is fine seeing the 2gb DOS partition and booting from it.
It is possible that you end up getting a LBA-only boot sector when
you
Gotcha, Ill need to learn more about this, perhaps try a manual install. Is
there any up to date guides for a manual installation?
Ive been using the freedos wiki as a guide, are there any better docs
available? Particularly about MBR and SYS with freedos?
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:59 AM Eric Auer
Hi!
> Perhaps just a simple bootloader would fix the problem? I only know of
> modern linux ones, perhaps systemd-boot would work from arch?
You can load DOS with many boot loaders including GRUB,
but that still usually relies on a working boot sector.
If the MBR has a problem (as said, FDISK
Perhaps just a simple bootloader would fix the problem? I only know of
modern linux ones, perhaps systemd-boot would work from arch?
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:01 AM ZB wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 08:40:25AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
>
> > Ive installed different operating systems on the two hdds
I dont see how it can he hardware related if both DOS 6 and 98 dont have
the problem, but freedos, all on the same hdd and same computer, using a
2Gb partition which shouldnt have LBA problems. Also two computers have
this same problem. Ive tried multiple drives and multiple cables.
On Wed, Jun 9,
1) The pentium 2 has LBA support, it sees even a 32gb windows 98 partition
no problem. i486 has no LBA support, so I keep the partition below 2gb. It
is fine seeing the 2gb DOS partition and booting from it.
2) the wording is read error while reading drive
This normally shows up when a hdd is brok
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 08:40:25AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> Ive installed different operating systems on the two hdds I have, over 15
> times in total between them all. Every time DOS and 98 installs fine,
> freedos always gives the same error. And if I boot from bios to cd to hdd,
> freedos also wo
Ive installed different operating systems on the two hdds I have, over 15
times in total between them all. Every time DOS and 98 installs fine,
freedos always gives the same error. And if I boot from bios to cd to hdd,
freedos also works, but I cant do that on i486 computer because it doesnt
have c
Hi Andrew,
> 1) Both use IDE connectors, no sata.
>
> 2) The error simply says disk read error in the pentium 2. The i486 simply
> has a black screen, like it is trying to load the OS but cannot. Both
> computer see the hard drive in the bios ( no hard drive post errors).
At which point, using
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 07:37:30AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> 2) The error simply says disk read error in the pentium 2.
Isn't it clear enough? You've got some sort of hardware problem. Try
different cables, different HDD etc.
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Thank you for replying.
1) Both use IDE connectors, no sata.
2) The error simply says disk read error in the pentium 2. The i486 simply
has a black screen, like it is trying to load the OS but cannot. Both
computer see the hard drive in the bios ( no hard drive post errors).
3) I installed DOS 6
Hi Andrew,
I assume your 486 and your Pentium2 both use ATAPI
CD drives and IDE harddisks, not SATA? Can you be
more specific about the (harddisk?) read errors on
the Pentium 2 after install? What does the BIOS and
CMOS setup say about your i486 which does not boot?
In general, I recommend the
Hello Guys,
I am new to the mailing list and retro computers in general, (mostly work
on linux), but I've been having some problems with installation. I have a
Pentium 2 233mhz, 128mb ram, and a compaq presario i486, 8mb of ram ive
been trying to install freedos to. After the install and booting fr
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