Hi, tocayo, ;-) On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Anton Vernigor <smm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’m trying to install FreeDOS (fdbasecd.iso) on a real (not virtual) machine > for the first time, and I’ve met some problems. At first I couldn’t install > FreeDOS at all, despite it was installed on VirtualBox flawlessly. > Installation went well, no errors or warnings, and after the final reboot I > got blank black screen with no reaction to any input, only power button > could help.
Must be MBR or boot sector issue. (Perhaps an FDISK bug??) > It seems it was fixed with another options used while partitioning the disc, > but I’m not sure what certain option did the job. "fdisk /mbr" perhaps?? > But after all I still see some strange behavior in just installed system. If > I choose default second option in startup menu (Load freeDOS with EMM386+EMS > and SHARE), the screen gets filled with error message, and I still see no > reaction on keyboard or trackpad. Screen looks like this. If you're using FreeDOS 1.0 (2006), you may want to upgrade your EMM386 to JEMM. http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=jemm386 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/jemm386/JEMM575B.zip http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/jemm386/JEMM575S.zip I suggest "JEMM386 X=TEST I=TEST" or similar (see its README.TXT). > The other strange thing is that first (Load FreeDOS with EMM386, no EMS > (most UMBs), max RAM free) or third (Load FreeDOS including HIMEM XMS-memory > driver) option in startup menu works normally, as I see (not investigated > seriously, but at least it looks so). Sounds like an EMM386 bug. I know I don't speak for everybody, but I'll try anyways: nobody uses "old" EMM386, use "new" JEMM386. ;-) > Fourth option can’t be chosen at all. You can edit it by hand (if savvy enough). > So as I’m new to this kind of OS I ask where can I read about this problem > with second menu option and how can I try to fix it, if it’s possible? http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-dos/ N.B. to others, the news item has long ago scrolled off the main page, so we need to not forget to proofread this (FDhelp) one of these days!!!!!!!!! > Just for now I’ve edited fdconfig.sys to hide menu and use the third option > by default, but it doesn’t look like a good solution. > What kind of hardware info may be helpful for solving this problem? Just upgrade to JEMM386 first, then we'll see. Though I would also suggest getting kernel 2040, but I don't think that specifically will fix anything here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2040/ke2040_86f32.zip/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2040/ke2040s.zip/download ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
