Roel Schroeven wrote:
> At the DOS prompt, I noticed that the keys were mapped totally wrong.
> The letters were correct, but that's about it. SHIFT + the digit keys
> behaved as would be expected from a QWERTY keyboard, while I use an
> AZERTY one (Belgian layout). Digit keys without shift produced some
> digits (a 7 when I pressed 1, for example) and some other symbols.
> This made it almost impossible to use FDISK... You have to enter
> digits to make your choices in the menus...
> After switching my keyboard layout to QWERTY I was able to continue
> (luckily I'm quite used to typing QWERTY on AZERTY keys).
Um, this is considered correct behavior, if you're describing what I
think you are. FreeDOS reacted as if you had pressed the phisicly
corosponding key on a QWERTY keyboard? If so, you need to load the
correct keyboard map in the guest OS. The same thing /should/ happen if
you boot the floppy.
If not, what FE were you running? From the screenshot, it looks like
the X one.
> The FreeDOS install went not completely smoothless, however; there was
> a problem copying a package, after which the install program gave up.
> But it seemed all essential stuff was installed already, so I went on
> and tried to do a DIR on drive C. After displaying the sum of the
> sizes of the files, it always hangs. DIR on drive A: was no problem,
> though.
How long did you give it? It might take a while -- the FAT16 filesystem
dosn't have a simple way to do it, you have to scan the whole FAT, and
IO is still very slow (but it's probably going to speed up soon.
> 2. Windows 98 boot disk
> This crashed in much the same way as the Windows 3.1 setup. See
> attached file win98bootresult.log for details.
This I've done without problems. The PM->RM compat is somwhat odd.
Some bootloaders cause this (syslinux, IIRC), and I think emm386.sys and
such might
>
> 3. tomsrtb
> No luck either. See attached files tomsrtbboot.log and
> tomsrtbboot.png to see what happened. It would continue forever, if I
> didn't stop it.
This is a LILO error -- according to /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz,
this is "'Controller error'. This shouldn't happen.". What's the
config line for the file it's booting off of? Is it the right size? (a
1.44 floppy should be 1474560 bytes.)
-=- James Mastros
