Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-27 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Friday 27 March 2009 15:45, Michael Robinson wrote: > packet driver has updated via fdupdate no problem. I'm at square > zero on figuring out why the 486 crashes on fdupdate but does fine > with say arachne. Hi, Are you sure that it's really FDUPDATE which crash? Note, that FDUPDATE doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:04 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Michael, > > >>> Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing > >>> fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find > ... > >> First try to boot without loading (J)EMM386, a common cause of > >> prob

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, >>> Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing >>> fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find ... >> First try to boot without loading (J)EMM386, a common cause of >> problems is a bad default EMM386 configuration which makes UMB >> spac

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > > Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing > > fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find > > out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something > > that detects resource

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing > fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find > out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something > that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera. First try to boot without l