Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader
Make sure you have the CD/DVD-ROM driver and a MSCDEX equivalent loaded on startup. This might be happening during the installer, but might be missing out of config.sys and autoexec.bat in your installed version... There's a script that gets called from FDAUTO that tries several drivers -- why wouldn't that work? And why did it work during install? Are you saying I should throw out that script and load the driver manually? How do I know which driver to use and where it's found? I don't think that the installer is automatically adding the Cd-ROM driver and related files into the autoexec.bat/config.sys files, while the installer boots with those files. That might be something you need to add manually. There is a generic driver with FreeDOS, but in worst case scenario, look for OAKCDROM.SYS on the web, that one works with pretty much everything and then just add SHSUCDX (which is an open source equivalent for MSCDEX) for the filesystem/drive mapping Ralf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader
Hallo Herr Glenn Holmer via Freedos-user, am Sonntag, 18. September 2022 um 19:30 schrieben Sie: > I installed FreeDOS 1.3 on a machine about ten years old. It > successfully read the DVD during installation, but doesn't recognize it > afterward when booted. > How can I diagnose this? you have a machine with AHCI, are running it in AHCI mode, and FreeDOS has no driver automatically installed for AHCI DVD. this is no problem when booting from DVD as the BIOS provides the driver, but is a problem when booting from disk. you can change this in the BIOS setup to 'legacy mode', 'SATA', ..., but then linux *might* have trouble accesing both disks and DVD, depending on your setup. at least you would loose some performance on linux. Tom ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
