I reinstalled from floppy onto a 40MB IDE drive and this works. So it must be something to do with the CF card. The card works with MSDos. MS-DOS only sees it as a 504MB drive. I FDISK and format it and it works. Is there anything I can try with FreeDOS to get this working?
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 11:57 AM Jürgen Wondzinski <juer...@woody-soft.de> wrote: > I have a customer with similar setup, using 256MB CF-Cards. Funnily enuf, > directly formatting that cards with RUFUS using the current FreeDos ISO > results in the same error as you describe. > I survived with partition it with RUFUS and Boot-Selection “builtIn > FreeDos”. Then I just copy the content of the current FreeDos ZIP/ISO onto > the Card. I.e. Replacing Kernel.sys, Command.com, Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, > then adding the “Freedos” folder, and deleting the “Locale” folder. > > > > Haven’t yet investigated why the builtin image works as bootable, but the > external image doesn’t. > > > > With kind regards from Bavaria > > > > *Jürgen Wondzinski * > > Visual FoxPro <http://www.msdn.com/vfoxpro> Evangelist > > Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional > <http://mvp.microsoft.com/de-de/overview.aspx>" from 1996 to 2009, "Servoy > Valued Professional <http://www.servoy.com/>“ 2011 > > My XING Profile <https://www.xing.com/profile/Juergen_Wondzinski>, and > LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/wondzinski> and Facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/juergen.wondzinski> and Twitter > <http://www.twitter.com/wondzinski> and….. > GCS d+ s:+ a+++ C++ !U P--- L E? W++ N++ o-- K--? w+++ O? !M--? V-- PS PE > !Y? !PGP t 5 X R tv- b DI+ D? G e++ h-- r+++ y+++ > > > > > > > > > > *Von:* Jeremy Leonard via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > > *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 27. November 2022 05:02 > *An:* freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > *Cc:* Jeremy Leonard <jere...@elite4god.com> > *Betreff:* [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot. > > > > I have a physical AMD 386DX 40Mhz system. It runs MS dos ok but hangs when > booting freedoms. > > > > BIOS post completes, says Loading FreeDOS then hangs. CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots > but still hangs. > > > > I'm using a CF card at my hdd. It's a 4g card with a 512mb partition. This > is all the BIOS sees. This works under msdos. I've tried imaging the cf > card in another pc and installing directly from the free dos floppy > install. Both yield the same result. > > > > How can I troubleshoot this? > > > > I have 17mb RAM, trident vga card with 1mb ram, winbond io controller, > 3com 3c509 nic. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Jeremy Leonard jere...@elite4god.com Cell: (517) 285-8309
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