On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:22 PM, sparky4 insano <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Oh, the old Zenith machine? http://oldcomputers.net/zenith-minisport.html > > yeah! > >>ROM or RAM?
> It is a theory but it Gets very confused with a ROM drive and a BIOS RAM > drive I'm just trying to be clear on your problem. ROM boot gets you MS-DOS 3.3. RAM boot gets you what is on the RAM drive. Floppy boot gets you what's on the floppy. I assume there is a BIOS menu that lets you select what you are trying to boot from. >>The Minisport can reportedly boot from A:, the built-in ROM (which > gets you MS-DOS 3.3) , or D:, the battery backed RAM drive. (There > was an optional 3.5" external floppy, but I don't know whether it > could boot from it.) > > I think you can... If you can boot from either floppy, you might be able to boot to FreeDOS. >>How did you get the FreeDOS files to the Minisport? FastLynx? > > Use the Serial file transfer program that came with the machine! That's FastLynx. > I think it boots from RAM drive or floppy fine .... I am not sure.... I would expect it to do both. Your issue is FreeDOS being confused by the RAM drive. That's no surprise, so try to boot from floppy instead. (Do *not* expect FreeDOS to be fixed to work on the Minisport RAM driuve.) >>If you have a spare 2" floppy the Zenith used, see if you can create a > FreeDOS boot disk on the 2" floppy in A:. then see if you can boot > from it. > > The machine needs to be repaired > > I think there is an open circuit in the power suppy cables inside the > machine.... > > If you think you can fix it then i can send it to you! I might be able to. I am *not* offering to try. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
