Hi Jim, I only wanted to let you know that the discussion went to bttr forum. Will be interesting to see if my 512 mb image works or not on this machine. Willi -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet. Am 30.01.24, 21:11 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>:
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:06 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>
> Very helpful. I thought it might be something like this. I'll update the bug with your info.
>
> Mind if I copy your photo into the bug report to show that it's working?
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 1:44 PM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a Book8088 v2. I did some testing. I imaged the FD13BOOT.IMG from FD 1.3 Floppy Edition[0] to my a slot on my Gotek formatted USB stick. I then used a Dell 316SX (a 386) with a Gotek FDD emulator & XT-IDE r625 to boot FD v1.3 over floppy. Next, I FDISK'd a 256MB CF card as FAT16 (CHS 984/16/32). Rebooted again to floppy and then ran `format C:/q/s`. I then copied a few binaries from the FD floppy to the CF card. Rebooted to verify the 256MB CF card would boot and it worked.
>>
>> Finally, popped out the CF card of the 316SX and placed it in the slot on the Book8088. Booted & it worked. See the pic below for reference.
>>
>> No magic other than I've been working to restore the Dell 316SX so it now has a NIC with the XT-IDE r625 BIOS in it's ROM slot. The original 3.5" & 5.25" drives aren't spinning and I need to refurb those next.
>>
>> The user on SF could try imaging a small (<2GB) USB stick with FD13BOOT.IMG and try booting off that as well. It might take a reflash of the BIOS [1]. They'll need to hit 'A' quickly to redirect XT-IDE to boot off floppy instead of the CF. I might test that as well.
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>> [0] https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/FD13-FloppyEdition.zip
>> [1] https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/book-8088-discovery-and-modification-thread.1245155/post-1343495
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:23 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> A user entered a bug that FreeDOS won't boot on the Book8088.
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/391/
>>>
>>> > Hi. I got myself a Book8088 2.0 recently. It's a Chinese retro computer
>>> > with a NEC V20 processor, 640 kb ram and a CF card as a storage. It uses
>>> > Sergei Kiselev's BIOS_8088 with XTIDE extensions (which enable straight
>>> > up boot from CF card(.
>>> >
>>> > I tried multiple versions of 16-bit FreeDOS kernels (2039-2043) on it,
>>> > but they all get stuck at InitDisk function. It will actually print out
>>> > the partition and detect CHS parameters but will get confused by it and
>>> > try to "correct" it. That will cause it to get stuck.
>>> >
>>> > This little laptop came preinstalled with MS-DOS 6.22 and that works ok.
>>> >
>>> > Btw, It doesn't have an alternative IDE interface, so the CF card is
>>> > only means of storage.
>>> >
>>> > Also, the error still appears even if CF card is formatted as either
>>> > FAT16 or FAT32.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have one of these devices, or have more details about the
>>> internals? I know about this only from what I've seen on Facebook:
>>> it's a mini-laptop made from retro hardware with a CF card for
>>> storage, but no floppy.
>>>
>>> The bug report indicates that FreeDOS is stopping at the InitDisk function.
>>>
>>> The user reports that the device uses a CF card in a CF-to-IDE adapter
>>> to act as storage ("hard drive"). At my first guess, that's probably
>>> the issue. I know others have had mixed results with CF-to-IDE,
>>> usually because the CF-to-IDE isn't correctly emulating IDE or because
>>> the BIOS doesn't recognize the CF-to-IDE correctly. (Seems like
>>> neither is the case here, since the user reports the Book8088 came
>>> with a working copy of pre-installed MS-DOS.)
>>>
>>> I think other issues folks have had with CF storage is that the CF
>>> isn't set up right, so it has an incorrect partition table boundary,
>>> or something like that.
>>>
>>> My first guess is to ask the user to try a different CF card than the
>>> one they are using now, to see if it's an issue with the CF card
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>>
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