On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 09:10, Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Does anyone around know if BIOSes in general differentiate between »floppy
> drive« or »hard disk« because of an existing MBR (or partition table) or not?
Interesting question.
Some (older) BIOSes do distinguish bet
add on: Should I limit partitioning for boot partitions on a usb stick for
Booting FreeDos to 8 GB? (Or maybe only 512MB or 256MB which are all more than
enough to hold the FreeDOS Kernel and OS progs?)
because:
> The original BIOS real-mode INT 13h interface supports drives of sizes up to
>
I would want to find out if there is any common ground regarding USB Stick
formatting and having access to a second USB Stick when booting FreeDOS from a
first USB Stick.
Does anyone around know if BIOSes in general differentiate between »floppy
drive« or »hard disk« because of an existing MBR
> Honestly, I don't understand the need for Win98SE (MS-DOS 7.1) here.
I did not mean to imply that Win98SE was definitely required, just that
I used it in the attempt that ultimately was successful. I likely had
this problem solved a few times without realizing it, since I made
numerous bootable
Hi yet again,
This kind of thing is a bit overwhelming to think about. I just don't
have enough experience to understand or remember every detail.
But I did vaguely remember two old freedos-user messages by Christian
Imhorst that may help even further:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Rugxulo
Hi again,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Kevin McCormick wrote:
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> Upgrade bios for MSI 7677 H61i-e35 (B3) mini-itx motherboard
>
> Here are the steps as best I can recall:
> ...
>
> In conclusion, a working DOS usb boot stick seems to be the key, and it was
> recommended to use the Windows 9
Upgrade bios for MSI 7677 H61i-e35 (B3) mini-itx motherboard
Here are the steps as best I can recall:
First download the Windows98SE image (Win98SE_bootdisk.iso) from
http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html
Second download the bios update .exe (in my case
msi_bios_upgrade_7677v63.zip) and u
I agree, that's the way it should work. Make sure it's formatted in Fat.
Also make sure the file is in the correct folder and has the correct name.
On 04/07/2018 09:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Kevin,
the point was that if you have a modern BIOS, it will
just look for a data file on a FAT-formatt
Hi again,
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Kevin McCormick wrote:
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>> I have created several bootable usb sticks with syslinux and FreeDOS, but
>> they enter the FreeDOS Setup menu when they are booted.
Usually you press F5 to skip startup file
On 4/7/2018 3:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
N.B. Keep in mind that traditional BIOS (CSM) is going away entirely
in favor of UEFI. So, in future, you'll never have this problem again!
Well, it's just a trade in, you will just get different problems. Just
try to recover a PC (or worse, laptop) that
Hi,
N.B. Keep in mind that traditional BIOS (CSM) is going away entirely
in favor of UEFI. So, in future, you'll never have this problem again!
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Kevin McCormick wrote:
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> I omitted to say that my operating system is Linux, Slackware 14.2. The
> Windows solutions
Hi Kevin,
the point was that if you have a modern BIOS, it will
just look for a data file on a FAT-formatted USB stick
and then update *itself* - You do NOT have to boot any
DOS from the stick to do that. Of course you can exit
the setup of FreeDOS 1.0 or 1.2 or skip entering it.
Trying to follo
I omitted to say that my operating system is Linux, Slackware 14.2. The
Windows solutions of Rufus or a dos formatted usb stick don't work for
me since these require some form of Windows. Unetbootin also does not
work with FreeDOS I.2, but even with a 1.0 image, the usb stick goes
into the setup
Kevin McCormick composed on 2018-04-06 08:58 (UTC-0500):
> I subscribed to this list because I am having a lot of trouble making a
> simple dos usb stick to upgrade my computer bios. It is appalling that
> the my motherboard manufacturer does not have the tools for linux (or
> windows for that ma
Hello all,
I subscribed to this list because I am having a lot of trouble making a
simple dos usb stick to upgrade my computer bios. It is appalling that
the my motherboard manufacturer does not have the tools for linux (or
windows for that matter) and the AMI bios is equally appalling.
However,
Hi,
Flox did some testing and found out that the stick boots as
A: drive with 30*255*63 geometry (235 MB), type 0x10 (ATAPI)
without disk change check. Because of the latter, LBACACHE
does not cache that "floppy", but I can change the cache to
accept "diskettes" without change check if they are
There MIGHT be an even easier way. With some newer BIOS's, you can boot
FreeDOS (from CD or a floppy) with the stick plugged in and the stick will
be mapped to C: or D: by the BIOS. If that happens, you can use FreeDOS to
write the boot sector (SYS C: or SYS D:) and install it directly from FreeD
> yesterday I made a USB pendrive bootable and installed FreeDOS with
> latest drivers...
> Access of the USB-Stick is very slow
Many (Most) BIOS's only enable it as an USB 1.1 drive.
sometimes (not often) using a different USB port helps make it a USB
2.0 stick
Tom
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> How did you install the boot sector?
> Did you just write a freedos 1.44MB image to it?
> I have a 256MB pen drive that I would like to make bootable if I can use
> the whole drive.
No - there are two ways - one for linux (Eric wrote a script) a
> hola,
>
> yesterday I made a USB pendrive bootable and installed FreeDOS with
> latest drivers...
> Access of the USB-Stick is very slow - porque of 2 reasons: I have
> DOSLFN loaded and 4DOS reads the descript.ion files. Any idea how to
> make it faster?
> XDMA(32) and lbacache+tickle do not hel
hola,
yesterday I made a USB pendrive bootable and installed FreeDOS with
latest drivers...
Access of the USB-Stick is very slow - porque of 2 reasons: I have
DOSLFN loaded and 4DOS reads the descript.ion files. Any idea how to
make it faster?
XDMA(32) and lbacache+tickle do not help... I am think
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