On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 5:02 PM E. Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Knedlik! > > If I assume that UTM is some sort of virtual environment > and assume that either way, you primarily need CD/DVD access > during install, which means after booting from the install > CD/DVD itself, then I would recommend that you try using the > ELTORITO driver instead. This uses generic BIOS support, while > the UDVD2 driver is for IDE/ATAPI/SATA, which means that AHCI > controllers are not natively controlled. On PC, you can try to > configure them to SATA instead of AHCI mode, but maybe Mac OS, > UEFI or EFI or UTM does not offer this choice? >
Yes, UTM is a virtual environment for MacOS. More info on their website: https://mac.getutm.app/ The website says that UTM is just a front-end for QEMU, so QEMU is really doing the hard work here. My thought is that if FreeDOS works on QEMU (and it does - that's how I use it about half the time) then FreeDOS should work on UTM on Mac. The fact that you're having problems indicates UTM has changed the QEMU config. (QEMU has a long command line to enable support for all kinds of things, so UTM is probably not selecting something that others might.) I only know about UTM by looking at their website, but if Knedlik downloaded UTM from their website, maybe they can try running FreeDOS in QEMU from the command line, to see if that works - instead of using the UTM front end? Here's the command line I use on Linux to boot FreeDOS in QEMU: qemu-system-x86_64 -name FreeDOS -enable-kvm -cpu host -m 16 -boot menu=on -hda freedos.img -cdrom FD13LIVE.iso -device sb16 -device adlib -soundhw pcspk -vga cirrus -display sdl -usbdevice mouse As always, your mileage may vary. In particular, "-enable-kvm" may be problematic on the Mac, I don't know. (And don't forget to change that command line to use your own hard disk image file instead of freedos.img. You can create your own with the qemu-img command.) If it helps you, here are two older articles I wrote about booting FreeDOS in QEMU: https://opensource.com/article/17/10/run-dos-applications-linux https://opensource.com/article/18/3/can-you-run-dos-raspberry-pi Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
