Op 19-7-2011 5:40, Juan Castro schreef: > 1) Adding /N1 to the UIDE commandline (at the end) to disable the > handling and caching of harddisks, might speed things up a bit. > > That had no effect.
Unfortunate. Ah well, was worth a shot. > Worked! Takes under one second to load. I got it from here: > http://www.hiren.info/downloads/dos-files - is it legal to pass around? Most of Hiren's bootCD isn't legal to use/distribute due to it being unlicensed full versions of commercial software. For other stuff vendors gave no permission to use/distribute their copyrighted software. VIDE-CDD.SYS is one of those. Another is for example most ASPI, SCSI and USB drivers. It's up to people themselves to download/use them if they wish so. > By the way, it says: "CD-ROM drive #0 found on 170h port master device, > v1.0" excellent :) > Are you using an ISO in Virtualbox or connecting a physical CD unit (if > that's possible at all, that is) ? > > > I'm using an ISO, and access is fast after the annoying UIDE.SYS delay. > It seems that comes from UIDE.SYS probing hard disks for some reason. > (As the error message suggests.) VirtualBox's imperfect behaviour means I'll have to fallback to the ELTORITO driver at installation time. For an installed FreeDOS there's not much I can do except recommending another CD driver. Booting from CD, then chaining to harddisk, followed by loading ELTORITO.SYS driver (and SHSUCDX), seems to work. > Juan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
