No floppy, I tried CD (booting SpinRite) testing a disk drive for bad spots. The CD/SpinRite does boot on a Dell laptop & desktop.
This clown speaks for himself > On Apr 4, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt <way...@panix.com> wrote: >> >> Does anyone have any advice about getting FreeDOS to boot on an HP desktop? >> I get a message about "Init..." and then nothing happens. I've been trying >> to get this >> to work for a two or three months but I haven't had a chance to fool much >> with this >> for the past three or four weeks. > > What have you tried? CD? Floppy? USB? Hard disk? > > Does your machine have a traditional BIOS or only UEFI (hopefully with CSM)? > > Worst case scenario, you can run an DOSEMU atop Linux or a different > emulator (e.g. VBox) atop a different host OS. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
