Hi John, interesting that you install via a "fake VGA to COM" card. But I think your crash is not from XCDROM. The last line:
> MORE$ driver by Eric Auer 2003 loaded. Use: ... > MORE$ ... is the last thing that NORMALLY happens before the kernel starts to use the HMA. That requires HIMEM to do control of the A20 properly. As you have EMM386 loaded, you can also trigger "virtual A20" and UMB problems at that moment in FreeDOS 1.0. Your error message tells: > CS=ES=CBE6 IP=5059 SS=9D62 SP=2134 DS=ESI=EDI=0 > EAX=0FFF5059 EBX=214C ECX=1079 EDX=CBE6 EBP=2140 > Opcodes @CS:IP FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF This may mean that emm386 tried to use the area at d000 (cbe6 plus 505.9) which then turned out to be unusable (everything ff ff). A workaround might be not to load emm386. Another option is to update himem and emm386. There are newer versions on www.japheth.de - I recommend the stable jemm386 plus japheth's patched himem, not yet the "himem and emm386 in one file" jemmx approach. Updating himem and emm386 may help to automatically avoid unusable areas and automatically get the a20 control right, but you cannot be sure that default settings work everywhere. Jemm386 syntax and defaults differ from those of emm386, consider reading the docs. If you do not want to update himem and emm386, please try to boot without emm386, with only himem loaded. You can add the option /method:ps2 to himem, as your screenshot shows that himem defaulted to kbc on your hardware which might be part of the problem. Other alternatives are /method:alwayson /method:bios /method:fast and /method:port92. You can even hit f8 when dos boots, then you are asked for each driver whether you want to load it. Probably not very pleasant for you, just yet another possibility. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
