I have been having some problems with FreeDOS
changing drive letters on me unexpectedly so that it is unable to find it's own
command.comI am ultimately trying to get a system which will dual boot
FreeDOS and Windows XPe, so that I can boot into DOS to allow the windows system
files to be updated automatically.Initially I downloaded an ODIN floppy disk
image and used it to create a bootable CD in floppy disk emulation, using
Nero. This booted successfully, and allowed me to partition and format the
hard drive. However, when I then booted from the hard drive, although it
listed the three partitions correctly during the boot, it complained that
COMMAND.COM was missing. Having found a command.com for it to use it
became apparent that the C: drive was in fact the 5Gb empty partition and not
the small DOS partition which had COMMAND.COM on it.No to be defeated I went
back to the web site and downloaded a FreeDos image and used rawrite to create a
bootable floppy that I could use in a USB floppy drive. Boots OK, although
with very confusing options during the process - eventually wait and choose R to
run programs from the command line.Re-format the HD as before, reboot to HD
and alll is well - it works! Until I remove the floppy drive and boot from
the HD and then the drive letters change again and it can't find
command.com.
Following some advice from a posting on the
forum I tried following a link to an alternative 'development' kernel - same
nominal version, but this kernel works correctly with or without the floppy disk
being present, and I could add the XCDROM drivers to be able to read CDs as
well.
The moral is that the kernel version sare not
clearly identifiable, but may cause some strange problems with early
version.
Hope this helps someone,
Justin
Bootable CD, created using odin1440.img,
downloaded from http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/
Booted to FreeDOS for 386+HIMEM+EMM386Ver
gives:-FreeCOM version 0.84-pree XMS Swap [Sep 03 2005 16:11:40]Dos
version 7.10FreeDOS kernel version 0.0.35
Kernel.sys has size 44,056 dated 09-16-05
12:26a
Floppy disk created from FDOS1440.img
downloaded fromhttp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/old/beta9sr2/and
dated 30-Nov-2005 17:26 1.4M copied to floppy disk using
rawrite from the same source directory.Ver gives:-FreeCOM version
0.84-pree XMS Swap [Sep 25 2005 15:16:48]Dos version 7.10FreeDOS kernel
version 0.0.35
Kernel.sys has size 44039 dated 09/26/2005
4.00p
Updated kernel to http://fdos.org/kernel/KERNEL.dev.sysVer
gives:-FreeCOM version 0.84-pree XMS Swap [Sep 25 2005 15:16:48]Dos
version 7.10FreeDOS kernel version 0.0.35
Kernel.sys has size 44,570
Hard disk has three partitions
C: - FAT16 20Mb primary active formatted
/sD: - FAT32 3Gb primary formatted /sE: - FAT32 5Gb primary formatted
without /s
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