Re: [SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver
Re-adding the mailing list. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 01:21:47PM +0200, nap wrote: Le 23/05/2012 02:51, Kevin O'Connor a écrit : On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:30:54PM +0200, nap wrote: My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ? Configuration: Asrock H77M+G840+8Go, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1 I'm not that familiar with DOS drivers. You could try asking on the freedos mailing list. You could also try running seabios with -chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios and see if any interesting debug messages come up. Finally, one could recompile seabios with higher debug levels to try and track down which calls aren't working (if you suspect msdos should be seeing the cdrom). -Kevin I do not think there is any seabios problem. My current understanding is based on the following web page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135174 My current understanding is the following: - Because the product key is on the HDD where W98SE is installed, - I have to boot from the HDD where W98SE is installed, - W98SE recognize a case of hardware upgrade, - it switch to MS-DOS mode, waiting for the upgrade command, - that is executing the the installation CD, - the current MSCDEX driver does not found the CD drive, So: - I have to install a MSCDEX driver able to handle QEMU/SeaBIOS -Nap That last part is what's confusing me. QEMU should be adding a standard IDE cdrom. That type of cdrom has been around for a long time. You might want to try with just qemu (instead of kvm). Also, if you still can't figure it out, you could try posting your command line and the debug log produced by the commands I sent above. The folks on the qemu list may be able to help as well. -Kevin ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
Re: [SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver
Hi, I do not think there is any seabios problem. Agree. My current understanding is based on the following web page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135174 My current understanding is the following: - Because the product key is on the HDD where W98SE is installed, - I have to boot from the HDD where W98SE is installed, - W98SE recognize a case of hardware upgrade, - it switch to MS-DOS mode, waiting for the upgrade command, - that is executing the the installation CD, - the current MSCDEX driver does not found the CD drive, So: - I have to install a MSCDEX driver able to handle QEMU/SeaBIOS -Nap That last part is what's confusing me. QEMU should be adding a standard IDE cdrom. That type of cdrom has been around for a long time. dos is even older though, it used to *not* ship with a standard ide cdrom driver. mscdex alone isn't enougth to make it fly, it is some kind if high level driver (basically handles iso9660 filesystem I think) which needs another one for the actual hardware access. Best bet is to grab the one shipped with freedos these days I guess. HTH, Gerd ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
Re: [SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver
Gerd Hoffmann wrote: standard IDE cdrom. That type of cdrom has been around for a long time. dos is even older though, it used to *not* ship with a standard ide cdrom driver. mscdex alone isn't enougth to make it fly, it is some kind if high level driver (basically handles iso9660 filesystem I think) which needs another one for the actual hardware access. Best bet is to grab the one shipped with freedos these days I guess. Right. Add the CD-ROM-specific device driver to your config.sys. If you find nothing else then this looks good: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/138.html //Peter ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
Re: [SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver
I don't know. http://bootdisk.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCDEX On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:30 PM, nap cara...@neuf.fr wrote: My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ? Configuration: Asrock H77Mᯎ㓻솨, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1 ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
Re: [SeaBIOS] Searching for an MS-DOS CD driver
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:30:54PM +0200, nap wrote: My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ? Configuration: Asrock H77M+G840+8Go, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1 I'm not that familiar with DOS drivers. You could try asking on the freedos mailing list. You could also try running seabios with -chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios and see if any interesting debug messages come up. Finally, one could recompile seabios with higher debug levels to try and track down which calls aren't working (if you suspect msdos should be seeing the cdrom). -Kevin ___ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
