Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: Hi again, Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdbasecd.iso doesn't. I ran balder in dosbox and

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Hi James, When I boot balder10.img from dosbox, it says PCI BIOS Invalid; XDMA not loaded!. I'd flash my bios from dosbox but I doubt that is a good idea. I put a screen capture of dos box: http://lockie.ca/test/boot_000.png Dosbox has nothing to do with your real hardware at all. Much

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Hi again, Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdbasecd.iso doesn't. I ran balder in dosbox and it worked but I can't burn it to cd

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Hi James, [freedos 1.0] crashes after I press return on the menu. Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. So you can select another menu item, for example boot without emm386 driver for ems / umb. There are

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Hi James, [freedos 1.0] crashes after I press return on the menu. Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. I think the first menu shows 3-4 options and press return is continue booting from CD. There are options

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: Hi James, [freedos 1.0] crashes after I press return on the menu. Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a menu with several choices - more than just pressing return.

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

When I boot balder10.img from dosbox, it says PCI BIOS Invalid; XDMA not loaded!. I'd flash my bios from dosbox but I doubt that is a good idea. I put a screen capture of dos box: http://lockie.ca/test/boot_000.png - This

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Hi James, Grrr, balder crashes too. :-( Did you try -not- loading emm386? 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105 1B80 90A2 0001 4200 00FB 0080 0549 0002 90A2 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105 5010 9989 0001 4200 0280 5873B 0002 Same crash, which program were you running at that moment? I burned a couple

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: Hi James, Grrr, balder crashes too. :-( Did you try -not- loading emm386? I just ran the boot disk as-is. 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105 1B80 90A2 0001 4200 00FB 0080 0549 0002 90A2 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105 5010 9989 0001 4200 0280 5873B 0002 Same

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: Hi James, I just ran the boot disk as-is. There should be some sort of boot menu which lets you select whether you want to load the EMS / UMB driver emm386. You can use F8 to single step over config / autoexec. You usually do want to load HIMEM, but not emm386.