Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: What we need people to do is try EMM386 with any DOS extended program they may have available and see how well it works, or not, with interactive feedback either way. NOEMS and NOVCPI may be tried for the venturesome. Looks very promising! -- it

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
This is very cool! Is it stable enough for me to update my weekly built boot disks with or should I wait a while longer? Thanks, Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel

[Freedos-devel] re: beta9, rc4.

2004-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, the idea with the release candidates: - they only contain the BASE package - they do not include an all floppy version - ... - the real beta9 is supposed to be the last beta before 1.0 - ... Eric --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:49 PM 3/9/2004 +0100, Erwin Veermans wrote: But on my test-board (440BX) that I use for testing my NwDsk boot disks EMM38664.EXE immediately hangs my machine. My config: Kernel 2033, 0.82pl3, Himem64 3.10 dos=high,umb stacks=0,0 files=99 lastdrive=z buffers=-32 When I add /verbose I see

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Erwin Veermans
When I add /verbose I see 'EPROM at c800:, size 0 KB' endlessly scrolling by ... try booting without emm386 and then: c:\debug -dc800:0 2 If it says 55 AA 00 then something is very weird. It says 55 AA 01 Is that avarage weird ? So I would have 0x01*512 =

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
little high) but what is the real size of your BIOS? 256k that's very big -- it's probably not all visible then within DOS or everything between C000 and would be occupied with no rooms for UMBs. I should have said VGA BIOS. Please check: c:\debug -dc820:0 2 It reads FF FF FF

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Erwin Veermans
When I add /verbose I see 'EPROM at c800:, size 0 KB' endlessly scrolling by ... Okay, so you're having problems with the EMM386 startup then. I didn't mess with the memory scanning portion of the original code, but looks like it needs to be updated for location of EPROMS. Can

[Freedos-devel] BOOTFIX

2004-03-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Gentlemans, I prepare first edition of BOOTFIX - utility to check boot sector validness. Please, test it, and report me if something is wrong. Reports that all your drivers are clean (ie. no errors, no warnings) also welcomed. Especially I interested in reports for FAT32. This utility is