Hi,
Thank you for following up. fdisk reports that C: drive is already active.
I did run mbrzap it completed successfully but there has been no change,
system gets stuck right after BIOS summary table.
Cheers,
Dimitris
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Jerome,
>
> From what I can tell I never get past the boot loader to be struck by
> himemx.
>
>
> Ok try this:
>
> Boot your modified FDI floppy.
> It should detect FreeDOS has been already installed and go straight to the
> command prompt.
>
> Run "MBRZAP"
> This will launch a special part of FDI in advanced mode to force update
> your MBR with the FreeDOS boot loader.
>
> -------
> During investigations of systems that had boot loader issues not being
> updated, I discovered that there is no way to force the sys command to
> updated the MBR. Sometimes, it just won't do it regardless of what you tell
> it to do. It can be forced using fdisk.
>
> There is another possible issue. Your MBR may be fine. However, FDI may
> have not been able to identify the drive or partition that FreeDOS was
> installed onto. You should run fdisk and verify that the FreeDOS partition
> is set as ACTIVE.
>
> Jerome
>
> Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors
> and incorrect spell-corrected words.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitris
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
>
>> Did you change the installed config?
>>
>> It uses himemx as well.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors
>> and incorrect spell-corrected words.
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you all for your suggestions. What I have tried so far:
>>
>> * Getting rid of himemx: this works - the boot process continues and
>> the installer tries to start. However the floppy drive works continuously
>> like mad, screen updates are slow, and I the installation appears to be
>> stuck in the 'Gathering information..' stage forever
>> * Replacing himemx with XMGR.SYS /T0 (kudos to Jack): Boot process
>> continues, everything is light speed fast compared to just getting rid of
>> himemx.
>> * Although installation of 1.2 finishes successfully, system fails to
>> boot, hangs right after BIOS system summary is displayed.
>> * sys c: does not help
>> * UDVD2 is able to detect the CDROM connected to the SB16 IDE
>> interface. Unfortunately only the CDROM drive that was supplied with sound
>> card appears to work there (MATSHITA CR-581-M), connecting other CDROMs
>> that can actually read modern CD-R causes the system to get stuck after
>> memory test. So I have to use a 1998 HITACHI CDR-8435 attached to the
>> secondary VESA Local Bus IDE for the installation. UDVD2 reports the SB16
>> CDROM drive in IDE1 - I would expect that to be IDE2 for tertiary IDE so I
>> may need to play with jumpers.
>>
>> I will try to sort out why the boot loader fails.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dimitris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Your driver is the problem this might be a case for the XCDROM.SYS
>>> driver combined with SHCDX86.COM - A quick way to find out download
>>> this file
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl-ow/files/xosl-ow116/BootMedia/BootFloppy/
>>> and see if you have clean drive access.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the followup. Hitting F8 reveals HIMEMX triggering this
>>>> problem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeSWtGNXN0NmxxaU0
>>>>
>>>> I have observed that the gibberish stops given sufficient time:
>>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeVjVMalF6M2YtMTA
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what else I can try - I will recheck the floppies for
>>>> starters in case they went bad and check the rest of your suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Dimitris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <
>>>> jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 18, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tried it please see the output attached. This is endlessly
>>>>> scrolling after drives are detected.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2zW1ur6Z_WeY2tOSXpNT2g3NUJWMWx6bFZlSFBjamE3VEFr
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, that isn’t very helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you boot the floppy, can you press F8 to walk through the
>>>>> startup? What item in the configuration
>>>>> causes it to crash?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jerome
>>>>>
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