> On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:52 AM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well...so I finished my testing late last night with the MSI Wind Netbook. I > ran into an issue the MBR was never updated by FDI 1.2. :/ Figured it out > eventually. You can read more about it here [0]. There's pictures and video. > > Now, I need to produce an ISO now for the eMachines M6805 I have (no support > for USB flash drive boot; tried several BIOSes). > > [0] https://sites.google.com/site/lpsantil/fdi12-msi-wind
Just watched your video. The USB stick ran very nicely on your hardware. And you page was nicely detailed on the install process. Well done. Just a couple notes, that don’t really matter. That was pre10 not pre6. (Hopefully, I will have time to push pre11 tomorrow) The forcing the stick to be treated as drive A: caused the boot errors when you were trying to fix the boot loop issue. (Hope to implement a cure for the boot errors in pre11) The MBR boot code issue. Yeah, I know. It just seems to be like others have mentioned. If you replace it, you may be breaking stuff. If you don’t replace it, it may not boot. Maybe, I will add an option to FDI in advanced mode to force a MBR boot code update in some future pre or beta release of FDI. Or, if I have the time, I might add a check for MBR boot code in V8Power Tools. You didn’t try advanced mode? (either by manually launching as "setup.bat adv” or pressing CTRL+C at any of the choice boxes) > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there an ISO yet of FDI/FD 1.2preX? Forgot that M6805 has a broken BIOS > wrt to USB boot. > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > Hello Eric and all, > > > > A little more follow up on the USB stick test. > > > > The same user who was testing, per my suggestion ran it in advanced mode to > > override > > the automatic D: drive as the install target. He said the install ran > > flawlessly when he > > set it to C:\FDOS. > > > > He did say that he had an issue booting it. And basically, it seems to be > > issues with the > > FDCONFIG paths. So, I will have to see if I can get FreeDOS to boot and > > load drivers from > > an unknown drive letter. FDI doesn't care what drive it is running on. The > > wrong target > > issue was an assumption I made and will fix. > > Just remove all mentions of absolute drive letters (in FDCONFIG.SYS) > entirely. It should still work. "DEVICE=\FDOS\HIMEMX.EXE" That's what > I did with my MetaDOS floppy image, and it works (once extracted) atop > (RUFUS-made) USB as "C:" or floppy as "A:". > > > It appears that if I get the booting from G or L or X .... to work, a USB > > stick installer may be viable. > > Not all USB sticks are bootable, but most are. Plus, old machines > (like my P4) need help (e.g. PLoP boot manager first, which makes it > read-only, which isn't ideal but far better than nothing). We always > have third-party things like RUFUS or UNetBootIn, too. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140_______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
