Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:11 AM, matthew berardi wrote: > > let's assume UEFI+GPT is the problem, how do I fix it? > > I do usually boot UEFI But I'm not sure that all so-called UEFI machines even offer CSM, so you may be out of luck.

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

let's assume UEFI+GPT is the problem, how do I fix it? I do usually boot UEFI On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello Matt, > > > On Mar 30, 2016, at 6:15 AM, matthew berardi > wrote: > > > > Hi Jerome, > > Thanks a lot

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

rename this back to ahci.sys On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:21 AM, matthew berardi wrote: > haha! I'm downloading a modern.ie image right now because it flew totally > over my head I could run FreeDOS in VirtualBox! > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

In the Boot tab in my BIOS, the menu for Xst Boot has CD, USB Floppy, USB CD, etc, etc and UEFI at the bottom. Usually I have UEFI as first and only boot. However, I've changed it to USB Floppy (I dunno why it thinks it's a floppy) as first and only, no UEFI. I can't see any option to disable UEFI

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

PS - Download gparted and create a DOS MBR partition table first to make sure you are not still on the GPT table. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > You are going to need to download this: > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-4/sp39596.exe > > And

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

You are going to need to download this: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-4/sp39596.exe And then you need to download Jerome's FDI image and and substitute the AHCI.SYS driver for the UIDE/UDVD driver. On my Acer laptop and that's the only thing that works for me. This will give access to

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

If I am not mistaken FreeDOS unzip will extract the file. Here's the text how to: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-4/sp39596.html On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Mikkel C. Simonsen wrote: > Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > Assuming the EXE is an executable archive,

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hi Don, I don't understand. I don't see AHCI.SYS or UIDE/UDVD in the FDI image. This particular disk has never never been GPT and the table is obliterated anyway because I dd'd the FDI image to the disk itself, not a partition. Any idea where I might be able to get those files without running an

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello Matt, > I don't understand. I don't see AHCI.SYS or UIDE/UDVD in the FDI image. Don is referring to line 18 in the autoexec.bat DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UDVD2.SYS /D:FDCD0001 > This particular disk has never never been GPT and the table is obliterated > anyway because I dd'd the FDI

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

haha! I'm downloading a modern.ie image right now because it flew totally over my head I could run FreeDOS in VirtualBox! On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello Matt, > > > I don't understand. I don't see AHCI.SYS or UIDE/UDVD in the FDI image. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

matthew berardi wrote: > Any idea where I might be able to get those files without running an > .exe. I can't run an exe, at least not until I get FreeDOS installed. I can send you the contents as a zip file. But gmail will not allow a zip file containing (among other things) exe files. So send

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Assuming the EXE is an executable archive, you could use the free DOSBox or > Virtual Box on Linux to extract the exe. It's actually a win32 installer. But it runs just fine on OS/2 :) Best regards, Mikkel

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello Matt, > In the Boot tab in my BIOS, the menu for Xst Boot has CD, USB Floppy, USB CD, > etc, etc and UEFI at the bottom. Usually I have UEFI as first and only boot. > However, I've changed it to USB Floppy (I dunno why it thinks it's a floppy) > as first and only, no UEFI. I can't see

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Okay. I wrote a fresh MBR to the disk, just to be safe. dd'd the image. copied AHCI.SYS to the root. changed line 18 to read: DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\AHCI.SYS /D:FDCD0001 and no change :( black screen, blinking cursor On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Don Flowers wrote: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Don Flowers wrote: > If I am not mistaken FreeDOS unzip will extract the file. Here's the > text how to: > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-4/sp39596.html No, unzip has this to say: Archive: sp39596.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello Matthew, Try using FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview Release 15 (FDI). http://up.lod.bz/FDI Use either the SLIM or full USB images. SLIM contains BASE and FULL installs and is under 32MB. The Full USB image contains those plus about 450MB of extra packages that are not automatically

[Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello! Every way I've tried to boot FreeDOS I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left. The machine is a Shuttle FH67H3 v2. I'm trying to boot FreeDOS to upgrade the firmware. I don't have a CD or floppy drive. So, I have available to me an: HD internal SATA or USB or a USB key.

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello Matt, > On Mar 30, 2016, at 6:15 AM, matthew berardi wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > Thanks a lot for the response. > I dd'd that image onto a hard drive. I could mount it and see DOSy looking > stuff. I tried to boot off it as USB and internal SATA and got the same