Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

My thanks to all who responded. With your help I managed to recover the installed Fedora 39 KDE Workstation OS and to install a modified GRUB2 bootloader that gives me the option of booting Fedora or FreeDOS. I made a number of discoveries along the way and for use by anyone who might find

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

Thank you all for your responses. Apparently my responses have been over the 40k limit; I'm not familiar with the site so pardon my delay in responding. There is only one active partition; it is sda1. it got moved to sda3 where DOS was installed when I used the fdisk that was part of the

[Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

On a Lenovo R400 laptop with an existing Fedora 39 KDE system, booted by GRUB2, I decided to add a new partition and install FreeDOS 1.3. The Intel Core2 DUO processor lacks VM extensions so I decided to install on the SSD. I resized the BRTFS partition to create a new 3 GiB FAT32 partition,

[Freedos-user] 387 emulator

I have recently installed freedos 1.0 on my 486sx laptop. I am now looking for a math coprocessor emulator that won't kill emm386. Any suggestions? -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win

Re: [Freedos-user] 387 emulator

On 11/24/2010 4:32 PM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: charles wrote on Wednesday 24th of November 2010: I have recently installed freedos 1.0 on my 486sx laptop. I am now looking for a math coprocessor emulator that won't kill emm386. Any suggestions? No. I do know there was one in the old

Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver

basudeb gupta wrote: Hi All, Is there an ASPI driver for FreeDOS? Where can I get it? Also, where can I get the specs of that driver so that I can write a program and access a SCSI hard disk? Thanks Basudeb I've had the same problem with FreeDOS not accessing hard drives. From

Re: [Freedos-user] scsi hard drive install issues]

---BeginMessage--- Kenneth J. Davis wrote: charles wrote: Been trying to install freedos V1.0 onto a SCSI HD. The fdisk program is giving me Invalid Drive Designation but will see the SCSI drives when I issue set FFD_VERSION=6 at the command prompt. That doesn't do me any good though

Re: [Freedos-user] scsi hard drive install issues]

Kenneth J. Davis wrote: charles wrote: ... FreeDOS completely blows this off and refuses to access the drives installed using fdisk (Unless using the before mentioned set option) or xfdisk or format. Since aspi8dos.sys should have taken the BIOS out of the loop here. I did check using

[Freedos-user] scsi hard drive install issues

: SCSI ID 0 = Quantum QM318200TD (18GB) SCSI ID 1 = Quantum QM318200TD (18GB) From these settings FreeDOS should see the drives a ordinary fixed disks. But it doesn't. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Charles P.S. Linux can access these drives just fine

[Freedos-user] cdrom trouble

Hello to everyone ,and thank you to all developers. I have a problem with my cdrom . My install went fine but now it doesn't work. Problem is I don't have a floppy drive or network attached ,just a cdrom. I just installed freedos and I cant get the drivers working. Here is the line in my config

[Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers

, and hangs. I'm not sure whether I have himem.sys and emm386.exe configured wrong, or if it is something else, so I have included my himem and emm386 lines below. My Himem.sys line: device=\bin\himem.exe /testmem:off My emm386.exe line: device=\bin\emm386.exe noems X=TEST Thanks, Charles -- A wise man

Re: [Freedos-user] Did anyone succeed to install MSWGC?

I can't confirm nor deny, but I think I saw a sentence or two in one of my many readings describing PROTMAN (no version mentioned if I recall correctly) makes some very specific assumptions about kernel/memory layout, which I do not believe the FD kernel attempts to mimic. Unfortunately not

[Freedos-user] INT19h BIOS Interrupt: Hot Boot

INT19h Has anyone else had any problems with the Int19h bios interrupt?