> > Hi James, > >> [freedos 1.0] crashes after I press return on the menu. > > Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a > menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. I think the first menu shows 3-4 options and press return is continue booting from CD. There are options to boot fro either of my 2 hard disks (2 options). I don't remember an option to boot without ems but I will dig. :-)
> > So you can select another menu item, for example "boot without > emm386 driver for ems / umb". There are several menu items > and there are even several menus. Please tell exactly in which > menu which choice fails in which way. If a menu goes ways too > quickly, you can usually hit a cursor key or similar so DOS > knows you are busy making a selection and stops the timeout > which would normally select a default after a while. You can > even use the pause key on the upper right of your keyboard > (and continue by hitting another key). > >> www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/sys-freedos-linux.zip >> How do I run 'sys' under Linux? > > That is a bit complicated to use, but basically you do something > like "perl ./sys-freedos.pl --lba --disk=/dev/fd0" for diskette. > > For harddisk, you would select ONLY the fat filesystem in question, > NOT the whole harddisk... Otherwise you would overwrite your whole > partitioning scheme. So "sys in Linux" is basically as dangerous > as "fdisk in DOS" - one wrong choice and you have messed up your > PC. Of course expert users can often fix it again without losing > a single file, but this can be very complicated. > > > So... Please do figure out how to gain more control over > Balder or the CDROM distro before you try to SYS from Linux. > This will also help us to find out what is wrong with the > diskette and cdrom distro and whether it is sufficient to > do a clever selection of menu items to work around. > > Thanks! Eric > > PS: Please give more information about the kind of hardware > you are using. What sort of PC, harddisk, cdrom/dvd, BIOS, > which CPU, how much RAM, any sound, scsi, raid, sata, net...? > > I have an ASRock Alive NF5 eSata2+ motherboard first release BIOS which is the whole point to update via freedos. An AMD Athlon X2 4000+ 4GB of RAM 2 SATA hard disks DVD RW no floppy sound on the motherboard MSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plus DLink DWL-G520 wirelewess card ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
