Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
On 20-04-23 08 h 03, Ludovico Giorio wrote: I checked, and the installer can only see my usb, not the hdd inside the laptop. Message is: "SETUP wasn't able to locate any disks to install FreeDOS 1.1 from." What am I doing wrong? I enabled legacy support in Bios. I formatted my hdd in Fat.

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! There is no need to use Linux to replace the MBR boot code, you can easily do that with DOS tools. Of course if you prefer Linux tools, they can be used for the same purpose :-) I assume you want to get rid of Windows, so you do not need to convert from GPT to MBR. Deleting the partitions

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread michael
If GPT is the issue, should a Linux based tool be used to get around that? I'm thinking something like boot nuke or something similar. April 23, 2020 8:16 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote: > Hi! Which tools in which versions did you use? > > For example which FORMAT, FDISK...? Let me start by > saying

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Which tools in which versions did you use? For example which FORMAT, FDISK...? Let me start by saying the choice for MBR was good: GPT partitions are not visible for DOS. Not sure what the purpose of that EFI partition is, but it is easily possible that Windows had a boot loader on the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread michael
What kind of hard drive did you take out? Was it a serial ATA hard drive or an IDE hard drive? Have you considered trying Freedos 1.3 RC2? Make sure you aren't in AHCI mode? April 23, 2020 7:03 AM, "Ludovico Giorio" mailto:ludovico8...@hotmail.it?to=%22Ludovico%20Giorio%22%20)> wrote: Hello

[Freedos-user] Installation Problem Hdd

2020-04-23 Thread Ludovico Giorio
Hello everyone, I'm having a problem installing Freedos 1.1/1.2 on my laptop. The laptop came shipped with a custom Freedos version from Hp, I installed Win10 on a second drive, had some problems and need to return the laptop. I took out the second drive, and the win bootloader was still there.

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem - PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-16 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:48:54 +0400, you wrote: Hi, Not enough information: which config.sys and autoexec.bat content on those disk? After which statement in config.sys you get this message (what you see on screen before this message)? Which kernel and FreeCOM version you use (do you get

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem - PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-16 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Arkady, Sorry, she downloaded the SR9 beta2 ISO and got MCB Chain corrupt, I told her to try Odin 0.6, well it solve the problem. The Kernel should be 2035a-unstable. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem - PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Июн-2006 11:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cherry chien) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: cc After reboot from 2G-harddisk cc Invalid Opcode at 2A18 0EB4 0613 03F2 . cc dos mem corrupt, first_mcb= cc prev :|1C 12 CF 00 DF 11 CF 00 C3 E2 00 F0 DF 11 Cf 00 cc

[Freedos-user] Installation Problem - PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-04 Thread cherry chien
Dear I'm trying to install FreeDos on one system. Firstly,I boot from CDROM as safemode,. I 'm trying to make a bootable 2G-harddisk. 1. FDISK to create a FAT32 primary partition; 2. make the new partition active; 3. reboot; 4. use FORMAT C: /S to format. After reboot from 2G-harddisk

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-25 Thread FreeDOS Ankreuzen
Yes on some mainbords PC s with PENTIUM II, there is a problem to install FDOS BETA 9SR2 from CD. If it s possibel use a Bootdisk with old FreeDOS Version and pre-install FreeDOS manually. Please tell me if you are using a Pentium II or which Mainboard it is. I ve this problem with a pentium II

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-25 Thread JeffM.
I am not using a PII. I am using an Abit KD7E with an AMD Athlon xp 1800 and sr2 won't install. sr1 and several previous releases work. Jeff On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:55, FreeDOS Ankreuzen wrote: Yes on some mainbords PC s with PENTIUM II, there is a problem to install FDOS BETA 9SR2 from

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:55 PM 3/21/2006 +, FreeDOS Ankreuzen wrote: Yes on some mainbords PC s with PENTIUM II, there is a problem to install FDOS BETA 9SR2 from CD. If it s possibel use a Bootdisk with old FreeDOS Version and pre-install FreeDOS manually. Please tell me if you are using a Pentium II or

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:07 PM 3/25/2006 -0600, I wrote: As an alternate choice, you might try locating the actual problem, which likely is not within EMM386 itself, rather than telling people to use obsolete versions of software which won't fix the underlying problem and which fail to provide a full range of

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-23 Thread JeffM.
ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/old/beta9sr1/ On Thursday 23 March 2006 05:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally figured out what you mean by sr#1 I looked all over the Free DOS website for a download of Service Release # 1 Can't find a download for

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally figured out what you mean by sr#1 I looked all over the Free DOS website for a download of Service Release # 1 Can't find a download for this Release Do you see a download posted anywhere for Service Release # 1 ??? Thank you in advance for looking

[Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread howarddavies3010
I downloaded the most recent release of Free DOS beta9 Service Release #2 (Dated 11/30/2005) twice and burned bothISO images toCD's via Nero as recommended Tried several times to install DOS via the CD's Oneach and every attempt the installation failed Display screen showed the following

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread JeffM.
Same thing exactly going on here. Many others experiencing the same results. Something is wrong with sr #2. Try this, I haven't yet: Hi, it could be the case that the nlsfunc interaction is what crashes for you (nlsfunc/display/mode/devel-kernel). Try if it helps to skip loading nlsfunc (hit f8

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread HowardDavies3010
I saw your suggestion posted before and I have already tried doing that No luck What is sr#1 ??

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem

2006-03-22 Thread HowardDavies3010
I finally figured out what you mean by sr#1 I looked all over the Free DOS website for a download of Service Release # 1 Can't find a download for this Release Do you seea download posted anywhere for Service Release # 1??? Thank you in advance for looking

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...

2006-03-19 Thread JeffM.
This may be true on your pc, however, I have successfully installed the last several versions on my pc (since pre release 4 I think) and not a single thing has gone wrong until this one. I haven't changed a thing so something definitely went wrong with sr2. I can still put in the previous

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...

2006-03-19 Thread JeffM.
Here is a suggestion that you could try to fix the installation problem. I haven't had a chance to try it myself: Hi, it could be the case that the nlsfunc interaction is what crashes for you (nlsfunc/display/mode/devel-kernel). Try if it helps to skip loading nlsfunc (hit f8 at boot, then you

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...

2006-03-19 Thread freedos deutsch
I ve got the same errors with freedos beta 9SR2 invalid opcodes messages and the installation stopped First I have build a new freedos bootdisk, from my collected files. I have bought a 400 Mhz PC. Installation of FreeDOS with Emm386 2.08 , Kernel 2035b-csv works without any problems. It s

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...

2006-03-17 Thread Panigaz
- Original Message - From: JeffM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem... I had the same exact problem. There is clearly something wrong with service release 2. I had to go back

[Freedos-user] Installation problem...

2006-03-16 Thread Escorter
Hi! I downloaded the latest fdfullcd.iso, and I burned it at 16x speed. I booted my PII from this cd. The booting is going fine, but when I start the installation, I get four line of Invalid Opcode at... error message, and the system halted. What does it mean? And how can I fix it?

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...

2006-03-16 Thread JeffM.
I had the same exact problem. There is clearly something wrong with service release 2. I had to go back and install sr1. I have installed the last several releases of FD and they all went in flawlessly on this hardware. There have been some suggestions made, but I haven't tried them yet. Look

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem

2004-10-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jens Ungerer schreef: 0Stage 3: Create Startup automation file ... Invalid Opcode at 9D79 F000 0006 0300 0086 4F43 464E 4749 dos mem corrupt, first_mcb=0271 prev 0271:|4D 0800 E7 01 00 00 00 53 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 M...rSD.. notMZ 0459:|06 00 03 86 00 00 00