Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-05 Thread Dale E Sterner
If you want to use CF chips instead of a harddrive. I'd recommend Komputerbay chips sold on Amazon. They aren't marked internally as removable like most. Currently I'm using 32 gig to run dos. Hard to find anything smaller now. You can run win 7 on them if you want. cheers DS On Thu, 4 Jan

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-05 Thread E. Auer
Possible explanation: The FreeDOS USB boot thing has a harddisk- style bootable disk image and the BIOS of your computer has some compatibility issue with the drive-renumbering caused by booting from USB and/or from using a "harddisk" boot image. A possible solution would be to use a FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing Operating System". On

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:13 PM, E. Auer wrote: > > Possible explanation: The FreeDOS USB boot thing has a harddisk- > style bootable disk image and the BIOS of your computer has some > compatibility issue with the drive-renumbering caused by booting > from USB and/or from