Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

On 12/26/2021 12:29 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: There seems to be some population of newer or obscure BIOSes that will misreport IDE drives and BIOS booted HDD formatted USB drives as being non fixed disks which FD FDISK requires to be able to interact with them. This isn't "obscure" at all

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I was able to test and MS DOS 6.22 is able to see and format the IDE DOM drive much like MS DOS 7. So, I haven't looked at what FD FDISK is doing differently, and it's likely a relatively small population that is affected by this. There seems to be some population of newer or obscure BIOSes that

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Apologies for the zombie thread revival. I recently bought 3 of these Wyse SX0 thin clients and I can confirm that FreeDOS 1.3-RC5 (and worse!) and FDISK are buggy on it. I think the reality is that BIOS and USB boot code is only partially complete and just enough to boot into a more modern OS

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Hi! As said, I can imagine that the BIOS of your system has problems if the USB stick and DOM both count as harddisks. But you already have bootable DOS installed from floppy now, so I suggest ways which are easier: You can connect the DOM instead of the normal disk to a "bigger" PC with CD-ROM

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

It was partitioned, with an MBR, accessible to Windows when connected to a USB to IDE adapter. Currently it's bootable to a DOS prompt. I used the "China DOS Union" DOS 7.1 boot floppy with a USB floppy drive to fdisk and format the DOM installed in the thin client. I could go ahead and put

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

>"Missing Operating System" is usually issued by the master boot >record, when no active partition is found. I have a Compaq Presario that issues that statement apparently from the BIOS, as I switch among about 4 hard drives and sometimes the drive is not fully inserted in the connector.. On

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

> I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with > FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS > install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the > DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing > Operating System". I just

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I'm going to try using RMPrepUSB to put the FreeDOS USB install image onto a USB stick. Why? Because it's supposed to be able to be selected to emulate an A: floppy drive (or as C: or D:) instead of presenting itself as C: like the FreeDOS image does. Recall that the FreeDOS installer initially

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

> I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with > FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS > install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the > DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing > Operating System". forget

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Hi again, I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing Operating System".

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing Operating System". On

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Hi, On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:13 PM, E. Auer wrote: > > Possible explanation: The FreeDOS USB boot thing has a harddisk- > style bootable disk image and the BIOS of your computer has some > compatibility issue with the drive-renumbering caused by booting > from USB and/or from

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Possible explanation: The FreeDOS USB boot thing has a harddisk- style bootable disk image and the BIOS of your computer has some compatibility issue with the drive-renumbering caused by booting from USB and/or from using a "harddisk" boot image. A possible solution would be to use a FreeDOS