"Scott Card" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - 4.1a (dos) boot disk fails on a Dell Inspiron 5150. The B44 nic > driver loads fine, but when it gets to NETBIND, it hangs. This > seems to be a memory management issue. If we use a much older > emm386 it gets past this spot but fails later. We have tried all > kinds of combinations of memory management stuff.
I assume you tried using umbpci.sys instead of emm386.exe? It seems that FreeDOS still has some issues. If you are motivated, you could take it up with the FreeDOS developers... We really cannot switch back to distributing MS-DOS. Perhaps we should provide instructions for creating an MS-DOS based boot disk from our FreeDOS-based images. > - 4.1a (linux) boot disk fails on the Dell Inspiron 5150, says it > can't find the hard disk. I would like to see the exact failure message. But first, please try booting with ACPI disabled. To do this, hold down the SHIFT key while booting and type "unattended acpi=off" at the boot: prompt. (If you are booting via PXE, type "inst acpi=off", or whatever name you use to select the Unattended boot image.) Also, you can try the 4.2 release candidate which I hope to get uploaded this evening... It will have the 2.6.6 Linux kernel. > - 4.1a (linux) boot disk fails in a Vmware (workstation 4.5.1) > virtual machine when it starts DOSemu? It hangs after "DPMI-Server > Version 0.9 installed". Screenshot available. Someone else just reported a similar failure on unattended-info. Is your virtual machine IDE or SCSI? If IDE, what does Unattended print when it is configuring the disk geometry? > So, we have just kind of back ported some of the 4.1a stuff to our > 3.2 that works well... I'll only have the Dell Inspiron laptops > available for testing for another few days if anybody has any ideas > of things to try. It seems like the mail list traffic has > significantly dropped off in the last 6-9 months :(. Doesn't seem that way from here. :-) Both SourceForge and mail-archive.com are undergoing maintenance. (The SourceForge list archives have not been updated since early April.) Try the GMANE archives (http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.windows.unattended.general) if that is how you are reading the list. - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
