On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:56:32AM +0200, Michael McStarfighter wrote:
(sorry guys, I write it in german...)
Hi,
sorry, daß ich in Deutsch schreibe, aber ich will das Problem sauber
rüberbringen und auch die Lösungen verstehen.
Ich versuche seit Wochen, FreeDOS auf eine USB-Festplatte
Is FreeDOS' boot sector 100% compatible with a DOS boot sector?
No, not even 50% compatible. :-)
Bye
Flo
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:17:34 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
Is FreeDOS' boot sector 100% compatible with a DOS boot sector?
No, not even 50% compatible. :-)
That's why Virtual PC refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy?!
Rgds,
Johnson.
Is FreeDOS' boot sector 100% compatible with a DOS boot sector?
No, not even 50% compatible. :-)
That's why Virtual PC refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy?!
Virtual PC doesn't refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy at all, neither
Version 2004 nor Version 2007 beta.
VPC is fully working with
Ich versuche seit Wochen, FreeDOS auf eine USB-Festplatte zu installieren.
Aber die CD sagt mir relativ schnell InitDisk Illegal relocation entry und
kommt mir dann auch noch mit Invalid Opcode und ne lange alphanumerische
Reihe, dies aber alles nur, wenn ein USB-Stick oder ein USB-HD
The tool basically moves the partition table to somewhere in the track 0
area. When you put the hard disk as slave, you can't access it (It's a neat
protection). When it boots, it temporarily unhides the partition so the OS
can see it and boot, and then hides it again. With any version of MS-DOS
I noticed that CWSDPMI does not work properly under older versions
of QEMU (a PC emulator). The symptom is that programs using CWSDPMI
will crash immediately with a Page Fault error message.
This problem is fixed in QEMU version 0.8.2. Earlier versions of
QEMU did not correctly update the flags
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:05 +0200, you wrote:
Virtual PC doesn't refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy at all, neither
Version 2004 nor Version 2007 beta.
Weird, last 2 week I've download Virtual PC from M$, but all FreeDOS disk
can't read in Virtual PC, but MS-DOS have no problem.
VPC is fully
Well, I did some research on everything and found the cause of the problem.
First, I confirmed that what the tool does is this:
1) The partition table is moved from sector 0 to sector 1
2) Some code is written to sector 0. This code asks for a password and if
you fail, you can't boot.
I found
