On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 00:50 -0700, BrentMartin wrote: > FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.26 [August 25 2006] (c) 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2006 tom > ehlert > HIMEM - Always On A20 method used > UMB's unavailable! > > XCDROM V2.2, 2-08-2006. > Driver name is "FDCD0001". > UltraDMA controller at I-O address FFA0h, Chip I.D. 80867111h. > Unit 0: Secondary-master, Virtual CD, PIO mode. > UMB's unavailable! > CD-ROM XMS/386 read cache, E. Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-2004 > License: GPL 2. For standard CD-ROM device drivers. > XMS allocated: 3.00 MB, driver size with tables nad stack: 7035 bytes. > CDRcache loaded as device CDRCACH0 - caching the device(s) of FDCD0001. > > UMB's unavailable! > MORE$driver by Eric Auer 2003 loaded. Use: ... > MORE$ > UMB's unavailable! > > Invalid Opcode at 214C 0583 0246 001E 0000 0000 0001 21AC 9DA2 00D1 FFF0 > 7D3D 10.......trails off > > I tried to install FreeDOS on my AMD Athlon 64 3400+ machine, with the above > results when I try to boot from a virtual FAT32 drive under Microsoft > Virtual PC 2007. > > No matter which menu choice I make (1, 2, or 3) it does something similar. > It won't let me select option 4 from the menu (4 - Load FreeDOS without > drivers) > > I have a group where I posted some screen shots of my attempts to get > FreeDOS to boot of the virtual hard drive. > > I'm guessing it's something simple, like running the sys command manually, > but I hate to guess at such things. I'm using Virtual PC to protect my hard > drive from potential corruption, and I pray a lot to the software gods that > they won't let me down. > > Understand FreeDOS thread at my group with some nice screen shots > > I'm a professional programmer, with an interest in operating systems, and I > am very interested in getting FreeDOS to run on Virtual PC or a similar > virtual environment, for use in O/S research on an amateur basis. I'm > working on my own O/S named DORIS, and I'm currently working in GNAT Ada, > after trying Small-C and assembler. > > I would appreciate any help in getting this baby (FreeDOS) running! > > I can boot from the CD just fine and it comes up and runs fine under Windows > XP Pro/SP2 with all the latest updates. > > I haven't tried FreeDOS on any other PCs, real or virtual, at least not yet. > > I'm hoping you have a quick fix. > > Thanks in advance for your kind attention and consideration, and please let > me know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a genuine problem that needs > or needed to be reported. > > Danke schön! Merci beaucoup! Thank you very much. > > (I'm also interested in localization and languages and notice someone asked > about that!) > > Brent martin
DON"T USE MICROSOFT'S VIRTUAL PC. Go to http://www.vmware.com and switch ASAP. A suggestion is that dosemu, which is free, might be better at supporting freedos than even vmware. Virtual PC is an inferior product compared to vmware. You can use an evaluation copy of workstation and then use player for free to run the virtual machine you created with workstation indefinitely. Windows 98SE, has Dos 7 underneath which is the last real version of MS-DOS, works very well in vmware-player and vmware-workstation. If you are interested in free software, WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU TRUSTING MICROSOFT CONTROLLED PRODUCTS TO TEST IT. Microsoft is a monopoly, Microsoft wants everyone to need Windows, need I say more? -- Michael C. Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
