Hi Brad, > I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot up from a floppy and have > been having horrible troubles with it. I downloaded the Odin floppy > image. I can get Bochs v 2.3.7 to boot up that image so I know that > it works. But when I use diskcopy to copy it to a real disk, I can > no longer get Bochs to boot it, or get a real machine to boot it up. > It goes until it says FreeDOS then stops with a blinking underscore.
Sounds like you copied from one disk size to another. Maybe ODIN is not 1.44 MB? It is also old, try the newer http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ distro, first disk should be enough :-). > I have then tried to copy the bootsector to the correct location and > then copy in kernel.sys, autoexec.bat, and config.sys, which I > understand are the only required programs for it to run, and it > doesn't run either, it hangs up in the exact same place. The boot sector only helps you if it contains a correct description of the filesystem and disk geometry etc... You can use tools such as OSCHECK and DOSFSCK to check some properties of your filesystem and boot sector :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
