Hi!
> Hello > > I'm having issues with booting FreeDOS 1.3 in live environment in my > Lenovo Ideapad S145 Laptop. After booting syslinux and isolinux, both > options, either install or boot into live environment, fail to load. It > loads memdisk and the fdlive image and hangs. > > I've tested the live environment on a old celeron t3500 with an american > megatrends bios and it worked, just cant use fdapm, my old laptop has > heating issues that ACPI control would help to manage as DOS is always > using the CPU fully. Is it likely some kind of incompatibility from > lenovo legacy mode? I will contact Lenovo and wait for further > investigation, but decided to report this. A search on their forum shows > that other users had issues with freeDOS 1.3 but were able to use > MS-DOS, so this got me even more confused. > > Regards > Eduardo Lucas > It doesn't even starts booting DOS, at least visually. It loads > memdisk, loads fdlive, and then prints memdisk authorship and > version message to the screen hanging afterwards and only > stopping by hard powering off the machine by its button. > I can't even cold reboot by ctrl alt del. That sounds like an issue with MEMDISK memory management and I think there are some boot loader ways to pass options to MEMDISK to switch it to a more compatible mode, maybe somebody here remembers the right trick and the details for that? I assume your MEMDISK is loaded via GRUB, SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX or similar loaders which let you pass some options to MEMDISK. https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK#Memory_access_method Default in newer versions is safeint (int 15) while alternatives include raw and int. Check your loader config to see what you had. Could also be useful to use stack=2048 if the default 512 is too small. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
