Hello all, New user to FreeDOS 1.3 here. I'm encouraged and still learning the ropes but as an ages-ago DOS CLI user, it all seems very familiar. I have an old HP Omnibook 4100 which is a Pentium II 233 notebook with 160 MB RAM and PATA hard drives with which I'm playing/experimenting. I say hard drives, plural, because I have a few, each in an interchangeable cartridge which can be swapped out at will. On one of the cartridges, I have a 1.4 GB drive on which I've installed FreeDOS 1.3. The others all have larger drives and work fine so I know this one is supported (and it's worked inthe past with other OSes on it.
So, here's the issue. If I try to boot from the hard drive, I get the dreaded "read error while reading drive" message. Some might think the install failed but if I boot to the Live CD and then tell it to boot to the hard drive, it will boot at least options 3 - 5 (but not options 1 or 2) successfully. I'm not sure why not 1 or 2 but the bigger problem is the higher priority concern (of course, I'll take suggestions to solve either). Clearly, it installed properly but maybe there's a timing problem? There doesn't seem to be any setting in the BIOS that I can see that might affect this (it's otherwise set to "Auto" for the HDs so I can swap cartridges without concern). I'd like to be able to boot to the HD directly because the CD drive is also interchangeable and needing to have the CD drive physically in there requires that something else can't be (and hence, an inconvenience). Thanks for any suggestions, I'll experiment when I can. -Rocky
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