Hi, > I have a 1.0 CD and a 1G, USB, thumb drive that brings up what looks > like the same menu as the CD. Both try to load XCDROM and report "No > CD-ROM to use". Of course the CD had to use the CD drive to get to that > point. Any idea what is going on?
The CD boots a diskette image with help of the BIOS, but to access the other files on the CD, a DOS CD driver has to find your drive. Suitable drivers: xcdrom for ATAPI, gcdrom or uide or xgcdrom for S-ATA. If you booted from CD, you can also use the BIOS-assisted ELTORITO.SYS driver until the next reboot. After loading xcdrom / gcdrom / xgcdrom / uide, you also have to load SHSUCDX which is the driver for ISO9660 filesystems: Drivers like gcdrom alone only give low-level CD/DVD, no ISO9660. Check http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ for a mirror of XGCDROM and other useful updated free DOS software :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
