Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot boot FreeDOS on 8086-based IBM PS/2 -- any ideas?

As other said, you need to be sure to use a 8086 compilation of the FreeDOS kernel. As an easy test you might want to try out Svarog86, which is a FreeDOS distribution built specifically for 8086 compatibility: http://svarog86.sourceforge.net/ Mateusz On 28/10/2016 19:04, Simon Atkinson

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot boot FreeDOS on 8086-based IBM PS/2 -- any ideas?

Hello Simon You could try Mateusz' Svarog86 distribution ( http://svarog86.sourceforge.net/). I am working on an 8088 emulator and I am able to boot his 360k diskette image with no issues. Cheers, --Andy On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:22 PM, wrote: > Hi! > > Isnt't

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot boot FreeDOS on 8086-based IBM PS/2 -- any ideas?

Hi! Isnt't FreeDOS dependant on 80286+? Not sure, but pure 8086 isn't very easy to handle these days. Did you try to boot without any device drivers at all? On original 8086 hardware you should try an old version of MS-DOS or DR DOS. That's what I would do. Good luck! userbeitrag

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot boot FreeDOS on 8086-based IBM PS/2 -- any ideas?

You need to make sure you're using the 8086 compiled kernel [0][1]. Pretty sure the freedos site defaults to 8086 kernels (should say in the kernel boot up) but you may need to overwrite the kernel to get the correct one installed. [0] http://www.fdos.org/kernel/ [1]

[Freedos-user] Cannot boot FreeDOS on 8086-based IBM PS/2 -- any ideas?

Hi there I presume that FreeDOS, like other versions of DOS, will run on an 8086-based system or have I missed something? I have tried to boot FreeDOS on a IBM PS/2 Model 30 (8086 CPU and standard 8-bit ISA and version with a 1.44MB floppy drive), but have had little luck. The boot disks I