> Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > > > It arrived Friday. I powered it on to make sure it works, and it does. > > > They've pre-installed some pirated copy of Win95 on there, but I'll > > > reinstall the whole thing with FreeDOS anyway. :-) > > > > > > The Pocket386 only boots from the internal C: drive (a CF card). I > > > thought I still had a CF card reader (can't find it) so I've ordered a > > > new one. My plan is to image the CF card from Linux and make a copy, > > > then use QEMU with that drive image to install FreeDOS, then write the > > > image to the CF so I can boot the Pocket386 with it.
My CF card reader arrived, so I tried installing FreeDOS on the CF card. I've had partial success; I can install, but I can't boot. I need help. What I've done: 1. Backup the CF card from Linux: $ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=diskimage.cf 2. Make a copy of the CF card image: $ cp diskimage.cf freedos.cf 3. Install FreeDOS using the CF copy: $ qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 32 -hda freedos.cf -cdrom T2406LIVE.iso -boot order=d (I created a single partition on the 1.9G drive, formatted and installed "plain DOS" to that, everything works fine) 4. Write the image back to the CF card: $ sudo dd if=freedos.sf of=/dev/sda (I get the same amount written as was read in step 1) 5. Boot the Pocket386 from the CF card It stops at "Loading FreeDOS" and just hangs there As a debugging step, I used 'dd' again to write the original image back to the CF card. Put the CF card back into the Pocket386, and that boots Win95 as usual: $ sudo dd if=diskimage.cf of=/dev/sda I've also tried running QEMU directly against the CF card, in case something weird happened when I was trying to write the CF card. So I did this: $ sudo qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 32 -hda /dev/sda -cdrom T2406LIVE.iso -boot order=d And that FreeDOS install works fine too. Same as step 3. But it hangs at "Loading FreeDOS" when I boot the Pocket386 with the CF card. And to confirm: I installed T2406 on QEMU, on my usual virtual disk setup that I have, and that installed fine. Doesn't hang at boot. Does anyone have any suggestions? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
