That works. On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> [resending without photo attached] > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:06 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > > > Very helpful. I thought it might be something like this. I'll update the > bug with your info. > > > > Mind if I copy your photo into the bug report to show that it's working? > > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 1:44 PM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> I have a Book8088 v2. I did some testing. I imaged the FD13BOOT.IMG > from FD 1.3 Floppy Edition[0] to my a slot on my Gotek formatted USB > stick. I then used a Dell 316SX (a 386) with a Gotek FDD emulator & XT-IDE > r625 to boot FD v1.3 over floppy. Next, I FDISK'd a 256MB CF card as FAT16 > (CHS 984/16/32). Rebooted again to floppy and then ran `format C:/q/s`. I > then copied a few binaries from the FD floppy to the CF card. Rebooted to > verify the 256MB CF card would boot and it worked. > >> > >> Finally, popped out the CF card of the 316SX and placed it in the slot > on the Book8088. Booted & it worked. See the pic below for reference. > >> > >> No magic other than I've been working to restore the Dell 316SX so it > now has a NIC with the XT-IDE r625 BIOS in it's ROM slot. The original > 3.5" & 5.25" drives aren't spinning and I need to refurb those next. > >> > >> The user on SF could try imaging a small (<2GB) USB stick with > FD13BOOT.IMG and try booting off that as well. It might take a reflash of > the BIOS [1]. They'll need to hit 'A' quickly to redirect XT-IDE to boot > off floppy instead of the CF. I might test that as well. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> [0] > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/FD13-FloppyEdition.zip > >> [1] > https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/book-8088-discovery-and-modification-thread.1245155/post-1343495 > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:23 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel < > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> A user entered a bug that FreeDOS won't boot on the Book8088. > >>> https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/391/ > >>> > >>> > Hi. I got myself a Book8088 2.0 recently. It's a Chinese retro > computer > >>> > with a NEC V20 processor, 640 kb ram and a CF card as a storage. It > uses > >>> > Sergei Kiselev's BIOS_8088 with XTIDE extensions (which enable > straight > >>> > up boot from CF card(. > >>> > > >>> > I tried multiple versions of 16-bit FreeDOS kernels (2039-2043) on > it, > >>> > but they all get stuck at InitDisk function. It will actually print > out > >>> > the partition and detect CHS parameters but will get confused by it > and > >>> > try to "correct" it. That will cause it to get stuck. > >>> > > >>> > This little laptop came preinstalled with MS-DOS 6.22 and that works > ok. > >>> > > >>> > Btw, It doesn't have an alternative IDE interface, so the CF card is > >>> > only means of storage. > >>> > > >>> > Also, the error still appears even if CF card is formatted as either > >>> > FAT16 or FAT32. > >>> > >>> Does anyone have one of these devices, or have more details about the > >>> internals? I know about this only from what I've seen on Facebook: > >>> it's a mini-laptop made from retro hardware with a CF card for > >>> storage, but no floppy. > >>> > >>> The bug report indicates that FreeDOS is stopping at the InitDisk > function. > >>> > >>> The user reports that the device uses a CF card in a CF-to-IDE adapter > >>> to act as storage ("hard drive"). At my first guess, that's probably > >>> the issue. I know others have had mixed results with CF-to-IDE, > >>> usually because the CF-to-IDE isn't correctly emulating IDE or because > >>> the BIOS doesn't recognize the CF-to-IDE correctly. (Seems like > >>> neither is the case here, since the user reports the Book8088 came > >>> with a working copy of pre-installed MS-DOS.) > >>> > >>> I think other issues folks have had with CF storage is that the CF > >>> isn't set up right, so it has an incorrect partition table boundary, > >>> or something like that. > >>> > >>> My first guess is to ask the user to try a different CF card than the > >>> one they are using now, to see if it's an issue with the CF card > >>> itself. > >>> > >>> Suggestions? > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Freedos-devel mailing list > >>> Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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