On 6/2/24 1:55 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
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.)
This is normal with new CF cards and/or some CF adapters. I use a lot of
CF cards on various old computers and they never work until you "fdisk
/mbr" them for some reason. Just dd'ing with Linux doesn't work. It's
not a problem with the Pocket386.
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