Thank you all for your suggestions. What I have tried so far:
* Getting rid of himemx: this works - the boot process continues and the
installer tries to start. However the floppy drive works continuously like
mad, screen updates are slow, and I the installation appears to be stuck in
the 'Gathering information..' stage forever
* Replacing himemx with XMGR.SYS /T0 (kudos to Jack): Boot process
continues, everything is light speed fast compared to just getting rid of
himemx.
* Although installation of 1.2 finishes successfully, system fails to
boot, hangs right after BIOS system summary is displayed.
* sys c: does not help
* UDVD2 is able to detect the CDROM connected to the SB16 IDE interface.
Unfortunately only the CDROM drive that was supplied with sound card
appears to work there (MATSHITA CR-581-M), connecting other CDROMs that can
actually read modern CD-R causes the system to get stuck after memory test.
So I have to use a 1998 HITACHI CDR-8435 attached to the secondary VESA
Local Bus IDE for the installation. UDVD2 reports the SB16 CDROM drive in
IDE1 - I would expect that to be IDE2 for tertiary IDE so I may need to
play with jumpers.
I will try to sort out why the boot loader fails.
Thanks!
Dimitris
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your driver is the problem this might be a case for the XCDROM.SYS driver
> combined with SHCDX86.COM - A quick way to find out download this file
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl-ow/files/xosl-ow116/BootMedia/BootFloppy/
> and see if you have clean drive access.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the followup. Hitting F8 reveals HIMEMX triggering this
>> problem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeSWtGNXN0NmxxaU0
>>
>> I have observed that the gibberish stops given sufficient time:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeVjVMalF6M2YtMTA
>>
>> Let me know what else I can try - I will recheck the floppies for
>> starters in case they went bad and check the rest of your suggestions.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dimitris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have tried it please see the output attached. This is endlessly
>>> scrolling after drives are detected.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeY2tOSXpNT2g3NUJWMWx6bFZlSFBjamE3VEFr
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, that isn’t very helpful.
>>>
>>> When you boot the floppy, can you press F8 to walk through the startup?
>>> What item in the configuration
>>> causes it to crash?
>>>
>>> Jerome
>>>
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