Thanks Louis Santillan, userbeitrag, Andy Stamp, Mateusz Viste and Jerome
E. Shidel Jr. for your comments and help .... will investigate further and
post results shortly....
Simon
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On 28 October 2016 at 18:04, Simon Atkinson <simonatkin...@operamail.com>
wrote:
> 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 created for MSDOS5.0 and OpenDOS 7.01 and DRDOS7.02 work
> fine – dropping me into the DOS prompt. I can then use their respective
> versions of FDISK to see to the installed 20MB hard disk etc. These boot
> disks also work fine if the hard disk is removed allowing me to run the
> respective version of DOS from the floppy.
>
> However, FreeDOS doesn’t boot at all! I’m puzzled... I’ve tried simple
> boot disks that I have created based on FreeDOS 1.1 and 1.2, but no luck.
> For 1.2, for example, I just get a series of dots and the word “ERROR!”
> When I have tried FreeDOS 1.1, with the hard disk in place, it boots to the
> point where it list the hard disk’s CHS geometry and then just hangs....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Simon
> ====>
>
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