Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: freedos 1.1 and xen
Solved. For whatever reason, the normal installation sequence did not work for me. However, if one chooses option #5 on the installation screen run freedos from the CD one is presented with an E prompt. From that, one can format the disk. The /S switch is not effective I don't think, so I had to install the system next. sys e:\freedos\setup\odin c: /BOTH Then one can copy the other utilities to the c drive and configure as one likes. So far FreeDOS (FD) runs just fine under xen. Thanks for your help On October 2, 2014 at 8:11 AM wch-t...@house-grp.net wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: On October 2, 2014 at 7:24 AM wch-t...@house-grp.net wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: On October 1, 2014 at 2:03 PM Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Dunno about images being allowed. Probably better to host them elsewhere and link to them indirectly. I remember seeing that technique now. I will see what I can find and post. Here is a link to the screen shot of the error I am encountering: http://tinypic.com/r/24wrno4/8 -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: freedos 1.1 and xen
-- Original Message -- From: wch-t...@house-grp.net wch-t...@house-grp.net To: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com Date: October 1, 2014 at 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.1 and xen Rugxlo, Thanks for sharing your thoughts and references with me. On October 1, 2014 at 2:03 PM Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: I applaud you for trying such an emulator with FreeDOS. Even I don't have the energy to try every emulator under the sun anymore. Xen under the OpenSUSE distribution has always worked pretty well for me, but there are some changes afoot in the Xen tool stack and documentation for the new tool stack is not plentiful outside the xen wiki. Probably unrelated, but I sometimes get a critical error when doing tab completion under FreeCOM (0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap) with DOSLFN enabled. I don't know the details, but I vaguely assumed it was because there is no physical A: drive on this PC. I think I even get it with DOSEMU. I will set up a virtual A drive and report You could try a different FreeDOS kernel (e.g. 2036 or 2038) and/or a different shell (0.82pl3 or 4DOS). If it's still a bug, at least you've confirmed that it's not unique to what you have now. I will download several other versions and report. BTW, some emulators are just buggy. Most people, even developers, don't seem to test very well except with a limited number of modern OSes, usually Windows or Linux. So it's not true that it couldn't be Xen's fault. I am sure Xen may have a flaw or two in it somewhere, but so far I have installed Windows 7, MSDos 6.22, NetBSD, and several other Linux distributions without any issues. (I have experienced trouble with SCO oses, but I am not done yet and this problem with FreeDOS may be related to the SCO problem.) I would expect FreeDOS to run trouble free. I have chosen FreeDOS to use for network testing. This is because I view FreeDOS as small in size, mature and with a good network stack. So this error is on every boot, after AUTOEXEC has finished running? FreeDOS can't find autoexec.bat at the moment, so an error is returned at that point. If I try to do a simple dir, the error occurs again, repeats three times and then drops to the C prompt. So I don't know if the failure to find the autoexec.bat file is because it isn't there, or because it can't read the disk. Dunno about images being allowed. Probably better to host them elsewhere and link to them indirectly. I remember seeing that technique now. I will see what I can find and post. I don't hold much hope for getting much sympathy upstream, but if you're courageous enough, you could visit their IRC and ask someone there. http://xenproject.org/irc.html I will give that a shot later. I started here because to me this looked like a hardware error, but in a virtual machine. I thought someone with FreeDOS experience might recognize it and be able to offer some insight as to the cure. Thanks -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: freedos 1.1 and xen
On October 2, 2014 at 7:24 AM wch-t...@house-grp.net wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: On October 1, 2014 at 2:03 PM Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Dunno about images being allowed. Probably better to host them elsewhere and link to them indirectly. I remember seeing that technique now. I will see what I can find and post. Here is a link to the screen shot of the error I am encountering: http://tinypic.com/r/24wrno4/8 -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] freedos 1.1 and xen
Hello, I have a host machine (Dom0) running OpenSUSE xen kernel version 3.11.10-21.1. I am using the xl tool stack to the extent I can. I have installed freedos as a guest. I am encountering errors such as Error reading from drive C: DOS area: write-protection violation attempted (A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail? immediately after boot but a C prompt eventually comes up after a few As. I have an MSDos 6.22 vm which runs without complaint. The xl configuration files are almost identical. Here is the freedos config file: code name = freedos_1.1_n01 uuid = 11071171-4e33-4182-8ff7-e1d3bbe80928 # maxmem = 512 memory = 512 vcpus = 1 # on_poweroff = destroy on_reboot = destroy on_crash = destroy # localtime = 0 keymap = en-us builder = hvm #device_model = /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 #kernel = /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader boot = cd disk = [ file:/v/v.../freedos_1.1_n01-hda.raw,hda,w, file:/v/../freedos_1.1_src.iso,hdc:cdrom,r ] # vif = [ bridge=virbr0,ip=192..03,mac=00...e ] # pae = 1 acpi = 1 apic = 1 # # vnc = 1 vncunused = 1 # serial = none parallel = none soundhw = sb16 # stdvga = 0 endcode This is the type of error I would see on a damaged floppy drive or one with the write protection slot covered, or on a failing/failed C drive; but freedos installed on this image file without any trouble (after I got the order of operations right). If images are permitted, I can send a screen shot of the display. Since 1) I am running as root (and therefore should not encounter any permissions problems) and 2) MSDos runs without trouble and 3) freedos installed and is obviously running I am assuming xen is OK and that my configuration file is OK, but could I have a timing issue? Is the CPU too fast? ( I-7 @ 2200GHz)I have seen some notes which mentioned throttling back a cpu. I tried caping the CPU at 20% which did not seem to help. If someone has some idea as to the cause of and cure for this behavior, I would like them to share it with me. TKA Bill -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
