I am now realizing that the drive label is: FREEDOS2022 I find it a bit hard to believe that I would have installed FreeDOS in 2022 on that disk... who knows.
Here some logs I took, wile booting... keep in mind that computer is AHCI only (does not support IDE). So this is why it is so hard to detect the CD rom driver. Logs: JemmEx v5.84 [02/12/24] JemmEx loaded Message Logger v1.00 (c) 2023, Jerome Shidel, BSD 3-Clause License 256KB of XMS memory allocated for color logging. Kernel: allocated 46 Diskbuffers = 24472 Bytes in HMA FreeCom version 0.85a - WATCOMC - XMS_Swap [Jul 10 2021 19:28:06] Performing action: APMDOS If APMDOS slows down any app, use ADV:REG instead. APM not available, skipping APM setup. Going resident. CuteMouse v2.1 beta4 [FreeDOS] Installed at PS/2 port DOSLFN 0.41f (haftmann#software & jmh 4/2022): highloaded consuming 11824 bytes. CD-ROM initialization. attempting to use the UDVD2 CD driver, error #255 - failed attempting to use the ELTORITO CD driverEl-Torito Bootable CD-ROM Driver for Dos v1.5, http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/ (c) 2000 by Gary Tong (c) 2001-2002 by Bart Lagerweij Drive FF returns 0000h bytes per Sector. Driver not installed , error #255 - failed attempting to use the GCDROM CD driver, error #255 - failed attempting to use the UIDE CD driver JemmEx: exception 0D occured at CS:EIP=E800:000006DA, ERRC=00000000 SS:ESP=9C40:000026BB EBP=00009C40 EFL=00033046 CR0=80000013 CR4=00000648 EAX=00005000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000000 ESI=F7200668 EDI=00000010 DS=E800 ES=5000 FS=9C40 GS=D03D [CS:IP]=2E 0F 01 16 78 06 0F 20 Press ESC to abort program , error #127 - failed unable to load an appropriate CD/DVD driver Physical hardware networking is not supported at this time. Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total Conventional Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- SYSTEM 21,408 (21K) 15,088 (15K) 6,320 (6K) LOGGER 1,760 (2K) 0 (0K) 1,760 (2K) COMMAND 3,376 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,376 (3K) FDAPM 928 (1K) 0 (0K) 928 (1K) CTMOUSE 3,104 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,104 (3K) DOSLFN 11,824 (12K) 0 (0K) 11,824 (12K) Free 711,072 (694K) 624,400 (610K) 86,672 (85K) CD-ROM not configured Done processing startup files C:\FDCONFIG.SYS and C:\FDAUTO.BAT Type HELP to get support on commands and navigation. Welcome to the FreeDOS 1.4-RC1 operating system (http://www.freedos.org) C:\>logger C:\>help logger C:\>logger /? see LOGGER.TXT for more information. C:\>logger information C:\>logger off _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
