Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread Matej Horvat
On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:15:17 +0100, dmccunney wrote: I think your fundamental problem is that FreeDOS cannot successfully boot from a 7.8GB partition formatted as FAT32. It may be able to access other larger partitions formatted FAT32 and seen by DOS as D:, E: or the like, once FreeDOS *is*

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:25 PM Jen via Freedos-user wrote: > I haven’t tried reformatting the partition and running the installation again > yet; I suspect it will still do the same thing. Should I try that? > Any ideas what I’ve done wrong or why it might not be working? You may need to

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread Dan Schmidt
Try the utilities fdisk and format, I've not had any luck using Gparted to make anything FreeDos can reliably read. On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:25 PM Jen via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I’m trying to install FreeDOS onto the SSD hard drive of my ThinkPad W520 >

[Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread Jen via Freedos-user
I’m trying to install FreeDOS onto the SSD hard drive of my ThinkPad W520 4284‑WZN copied to RAM from a DVD I have, using its internal DVD‑RW drive.   · In the UEFI BIOS [version 8BET62WW (1.42)], I set the boot to “Legacy Only” & the ‘SATA Controller Mode Option’ to “Compatibility” mode (IDE