Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
here, output of ./file feedos images for source 1.44 official floppy and my 34mb freedos.img: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID LINUX4.1, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 64, sectors 68000 (volumes 32 MB) , FAT (32 bit), sectors/FAT 523, serial number 0xa6a51e0c, label: # file fdboot.img fdboot.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS Beta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID LINUX4.1, sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes =32 MB) , Media descriptor 0xfd, sectors/FAT 2, serial number 0x1ce95c55, unlabeled, FAT (12 bit) could you point me what Image could be okay for installation on hdd, because my image even larger then 1.44. I take an images from http://www.freedos.org/download/ On 26 April 2013 00:07, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 April 2013 00:34, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:57 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 14:44, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: here how I making freedos iso... But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? I've try ke2041_86f32.zip and bare_dos content of *.img files in my freedos.img and it's not loading more then Loading boot sector ... boot Specifically, what did you do? Did you boot the floppy image under QEMU? Did you run SYS.COM on a FAT-formatted disk image? We need more details to give advice. :-) yes I boot image in syslinux with kernel /memdisk append initrd=/freedos.img or append initrd=/freedos.img floppy Hmmm, I'm not very familiar with SysLinux, quite honestly, but it should work. Anyways, if your (8 MB disk image DOS) system doesn't dual boot, you don't need SysLinux at all. Syslinux do boot image from iso, like grub. sys-freesos.pl make mbr record for start kernel.sys, but it can't be found on img(no iso) or wrong comand.com command line. Last time I did it, I had a real floppy drive unit. - Create a real floppy, use format and sys as usual. - Use rawwrite (DOS or WIN version) to create a image file - Boot qemu with option /a I not using windows. But where I should put /a option in comman.sys? IIRC, qemu -fda bare_dos.img -hda 8-mb-disk.img -boot a is what he means, but it's been a while since I played with QEMU. -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with 2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
On 25 April 2013 00:34, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:57 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 14:44, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: here how I making freedos iso... But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? I've try ke2041_86f32.zip and bare_dos content of *.img files in my freedos.img and it's not loading more then Loading boot sector ... boot Specifically, what did you do? Did you boot the floppy image under QEMU? Did you run SYS.COM on a FAT-formatted disk image? We need more details to give advice. :-) yes I boot image in syslinux with kernel /memdisk append initrd=/freedos.img or append initrd=/freedos.img floppy Hmmm, I'm not very familiar with SysLinux, quite honestly, but it should work. Anyways, if your (8 MB disk image DOS) system doesn't dual boot, you don't need SysLinux at all. Syslinux do boot image from iso, like grub. sys-freesos.pl make mbr record for start kernel.sys, but it can't be found on img(no iso) or wrong comand.com command line. Last time I did it, I had a real floppy drive unit. - Create a real floppy, use format and sys as usual. - Use rawwrite (DOS or WIN version) to create a image file - Boot qemu with option /a I not using windows. But where I should put /a option in comman.sys? IIRC, qemu -fda bare_dos.img -hda 8-mb-disk.img -boot a is what he means, but it's been a while since I played with QEMU. -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: here how I making freedos iso... But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? I've try ke2041_86f32.zip and bare_dos content of *.img files in my freedos.img and it's not loading more then Loading boot sector ... boot dd if=/dev/zero of=freedos.img bs=1024 count=34000 mkdosfs -F 32 freedos.img /usr/src/sys-freedos.pl --disk=freedos.img mount -o loop fdboot.img /mnt/dos2/ mount -o loop freedos.img /mnt/dos/ cp -a /mnt/dos2/* /mnt/dos/ mkisofs -udf -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/gfxboot.cfg -no-emul-boot -boot-info-table -o /mnt/fs/rec_cd.iso ./ I suggest using QEMU (or similar) and booting the liveCD and using FreeDOS' FORMAT.EXE (or similar) to create the FAT and SYS.COM (found in kernel binary .ZIP, e.g. ke2041_86f32.zip) to install the boot sector properly. Then XCOPY or UNZIP various other stuff you may want to use later. This way should be more reliable than using the sys-freedos.pl script. (EDIT: Hmmm, IIRC, FD 1.1 doesn't properly have liveCD, is that your problem?? Then boot via pre-existing bootable floppy image. I almost hate to recommend my old BARE_DOS, but it should work okay despite a few barely older tools.) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/bare_dos/ -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: here how I making freedos iso... But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? I've try ke2041_86f32.zip and bare_dos content of *.img files in my freedos.img and it's not loading more then Loading boot sector ... boot Specifically, what did you do? Did you boot the floppy image under QEMU? Did you run SYS.COM on a FAT-formatted disk image? We need more details to give advice. :-) -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
El 24/04/2013 10:14 a.m., Rugxulo escribió: Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: here how I making freedos iso... But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? I've try ke2041_86f32.zip and bare_dos content of *.img files in my freedos.img and it's not loading more then Loading boot sector ... boot Specifically, what did you do? Did you boot the floppy image under QEMU? Did you run SYS.COM on a FAT-formatted disk image? We need more details to give advice. :-) -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Last time I did it, I had a real floppy drive unit. - Create a real floppy, use format and sys as usual. - Use rawwrite (DOS or WIN version) to create a image file - Boot qemu with option /a -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Skype: marcoachury http://www.achury.com.ve -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
On 24 April 2013 14:44, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: here how I making freedos iso... But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? I've try ke2041_86f32.zip and bare_dos content of *.img files in my freedos.img and it's not loading more then Loading boot sector ... boot Specifically, what did you do? Did you boot the floppy image under QEMU? Did you run SYS.COM on a FAT-formatted disk image? We need more details to give advice. :-) yes I boot image in syslinux with kernel /memdisk append initrd=/freedos.img or append initrd=/freedos.img floppy Last time I did it, I had a real floppy drive unit. - Create a real floppy, use format and sys as usual. - Use rawwrite (DOS or WIN version) to create a image file - Boot qemu with option /a I not using windows. But where I should put /a option in comman.sys? -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
here how I making freedos iso... dd if=/dev/zero of=freedos.img bs=1024 count=34000 mkdosfs -F 32 freedos.img /usr/src/sys-freedos.pl --disk=freedos.img mount -o loop fdboot.img /mnt/dos2/ mount -o loop freedos.img /mnt/dos/ cp -a /mnt/dos2/* /mnt/dos/ mkisofs -udf -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/gfxboot.cfg -no-emul-boot -boot-info-table -o /mnt/fs/rec_cd.iso ./ On 20 April 2013 02:54, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 April 2013 21:39, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:49 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed freedos by different ways from livecd and sys-freedos.pl script, The person to ask / await would be Eric Auer (esp. for sys-freedos.pl). IIRC, I think the disk geometry often needs manual fixing (search the mail archives). anyway, I can't bootup it. I did instalation from livecd and make a new image with that script, copy all freedos content to new image, it found kernel.sys file, but say error about commant.com with parameters I never insert. I need large image around 8mb free space for laptop bioses. You're copying raw disks to images for further installations? yes I did copy content of 1,44mb image to my formated image. I've mount it as loop msdos and copy from 1,44 to my 8mb image. And run sys-freedos.pl for boot. Or are you installing to disk images for emulators? Either way, if you can boot a liveCD (on real hardware or emulation), the easiest way is to just use native SYS.COM for proper installation. If that doesn't work for you (or is misunderstanding your question), feel free to elaborate further. P.S. You may be able to use mkisofs to roll your own liveCD if necessary (probably, since you need 8 MB): (quoting Bernd Blaauw not too long ago): mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.0b -o /tmp/fdbasecd-remastered.iso -b \ ./isolinux/isolinux.bin -c ./isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ./ -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
Hi, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:49 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed freedos by different ways from livecd and sys-freedos.pl script, The person to ask / await would be Eric Auer (esp. for sys-freedos.pl). IIRC, I think the disk geometry often needs manual fixing (search the mail archives). anyway, I can't bootup it. I did instalation from livecd and make a new image with that script, copy all freedos content to new image, it found kernel.sys file, but say error about commant.com with parameters I never insert. I need large image around 8mb free space for laptop bioses. You're copying raw disks to images for further installations? Or are you installing to disk images for emulators? Either way, if you can boot a liveCD (on real hardware or emulation), the easiest way is to just use native SYS.COM for proper installation. If that doesn't work for you (or is misunderstanding your question), feel free to elaborate further. P.S. You may be able to use mkisofs to roll your own liveCD if necessary (probably, since you need 8 MB): (quoting Bernd Blaauw not too long ago): mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.0b -o /tmp/fdbasecd-remastered.iso -b \ ./isolinux/isolinux.bin -c ./isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ./ -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble
On 19 April 2013 21:39, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:49 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote: I've installed freedos by different ways from livecd and sys-freedos.pl script, The person to ask / await would be Eric Auer (esp. for sys-freedos.pl). IIRC, I think the disk geometry often needs manual fixing (search the mail archives). anyway, I can't bootup it. I did instalation from livecd and make a new image with that script, copy all freedos content to new image, it found kernel.sys file, but say error about commant.com with parameters I never insert. I need large image around 8mb free space for laptop bioses. You're copying raw disks to images for further installations? yes I did copy content of 1,44mb image to my formated image. I've mount it as loop msdos and copy from 1,44 to my 8mb image. And run sys-freedos.plfor boot. Or are you installing to disk images for emulators? Either way, if you can boot a liveCD (on real hardware or emulation), the easiest way is to just use native SYS.COM for proper installation. If that doesn't work for you (or is misunderstanding your question), feel free to elaborate further. P.S. You may be able to use mkisofs to roll your own liveCD if necessary (probably, since you need 8 MB): (quoting Bernd Blaauw not too long ago): mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.0b -o /tmp/fdbasecd-remastered.iso -b \ ./isolinux/isolinux.bin -c ./isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ./ -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
