I did a test of this CD too. First I would suggest to make an El-Torito hard
disk instead of using ISOLinux. DOS I feel should boot directly and not by
booting a version of Linux first. I did my LifeCDs with FreeDOS just as an
El-Torito hard disk with 10MB.
Then I have to mention that I cannot read the menu within 5 seconds and
decide what to select. After 5 seconds the menu will run automatically into
the install FreeDOS on hard disk branch. And then wait forever to select the
language. Therefore I would suggest to have no menu selection to be run
automatically. Today, most people may use the CD to boot FreeDOS on a
Windows7 PC and they do not want to install FreeDOS on the NTFS disk.
When I select "Use FreeDOS as LiveCD system.." and have a Flash disk
inserted, the El-Torito Bootable CD-Rom driver results in the error:
"JemmEX: exception 0D occured".
When I have no Flash disk inserted it boots ok and the prompt is on drive F:
However, when I enter "keyb gr" I get the error: "JemmEX: exception 06
occured".
Further drive F: is called "FD11Setup". Drive A: is "FDOS11Setup". Now, when
I load DOSUSB and then "devload usbdisk.sys" the block device driver
usbdisk.sys will get the drive letter F: from FreeDOS. Apparently it does
not supply the next drive letter which would be G:. I can then access the
flash disk as F:, but "FD11Setup" is gone.
The next menu option ("Boot into LiveCD system") will display the message
"SHSUCDX could not detect any drives". When I enter "keyb gr" it returns
"bad command or file name"
The next menu option ("Load liveCD system without drivers") will boot ok
with the same flash disk inserted and the command prompt will show G:
If I then enter "keyb gr" to get German keyboard support the keyboard driver
will crash with "illegal opcode".
When I enter "menu" as instructed, FreeDOS returns "bad command or file
name" - so it does not find the menu command.
By the way this option selects option 5 on the next menu which does not show
that as a valid (or documented) option.
Georg
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