Hi all, Ian Trider seems to have solved the mystery of "ASUS ships a broken FreeDOS installer with certain motherboards but they do not know that they ship any FreeDOS at all":
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/crashfreebios2.htm If the BIOS detects a checksum error, it switches to CD-ROM boot and asks for the support CD... and there you see a nice screenshot of FreeDOS 2026a Apr 05 2002 (FAT16, Turbo C) booting up :-). Note that somebody forgot to update the Copyright string to say 2002. Then FreeCom 0.83 Beta 32 Dec 03 2001 starts up (no config.sys messages) and SHSUCDX 1.4b (John H. McCoy Oct 2000). Finally the CD-ROM detects that the BIOS checksum is wrong and offers you to recover from that. In the very end you get an A:\> prompt. Probably THERE somebody forgot to delete parts of the installer (which FreeDOS distro version?) which allowed people to do things like "start SETUP" and destroy their Win boot sectors. Eric. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
