Jim Hall wrote: > 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. > [..] > 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.
I just did another test, one I should have tried first: 1. Ran QEMU directly against the CF card (same QEMU command line as above) 2. Did *not* run the installer 3. Manually ran FDISK, delete all partitions 4. Reboot .. run FDISK, create a single 10MB partition 5. Reboot .. FORMAT C: /s And then I put the CF card back into the Pocket386, and it boots! There's nothing there (I didn't install, just made a tiny partition bootable) but at least it works!! So I'll do more work with this tomorrow and put FreeDOS on it, even if I have to do everything without the installer. (I don't think the installer is specifically at fault, probably something else.) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
