Hi,
> On Sep 17, 2023, at 10:56 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
>
> Rereading dates on:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/devel/
> most packages are not very recent... ldegug is... upx from this year, but
> other relatively old.
>
Rereading dates on:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/devel/
most packages are not very recent... ldegug is... upx from this year, but other
relatively old.
I have:
Title: DJGPP.GCC
Version: 12.2.0
Entered-date:
Looks like
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/devel/dj_gcc.zip
is version 4.71 (mostly just looking at DEVEL\DJGPP \MANIFEST files), so the
stable branch version from:
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/devel/dj_gcc/-/tree/master/DEVEL/DJGPP/MANIFEST
not my
I suspect the invalid partition signature is coming from SeaBIOS (QEMU BIOS).
[Maybe the MBR itself?]
It is the MBR code FDISK installs, which outputs the message.
But my guess we could partition and format without rebooting if QEMU is
detected.
Don't know which hardware need a reboot after
Le dim., 17 sept. 2023 07:19:23 -0400 Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel a
écrit
> Perhaps we should change the message in the installer to make this more
> clear? This problem seems to occur more often than desired.
I suspect the invalid partition signature is coming from SeaBIOS
Great to hear it is working now.
>
> So I was confused in thinking I had formated hard disk... I had it only
> partitioned. (message was correct, just me bad interpreting it).
Perhaps we should change the message in the installer to make this more clear?
This problem seems to occur more often
Ok, I figured it out by reading http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=21935
Was booting without -boot order d
which seems to means (when not present): boot from hard disk if it is
partitioned, else boot from CDROM
So I was going to partitioning hard disk, but when rebooting, it was booting
Hi Paul,
> While trying FDOS Live T2308.iso on QEMU under Fedora 38, I get a D: prompt,
> I do setup, format the drive, reboot, but then I get:
> partition signature != 55AA
That message comes from the FreeDOS installed MBR boot code. So the first stage
of the boot process - BIOS loads and
Hi guys,
b0 7c 00 00 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd 13 72 32 81 fb 55 aa
[...]
I am a bit surprised the signature is also at the end of 0xb0 address line.
Don't be: that's code checking the signature and it only _happens_ to be
"aligned" there. :-)
Joe
