Update: I tried again and now it shows "Non-system disk or disk error".
On Sat, Jul 5, 2025, 03:28 Lutalli wrote:
> I'm happy to hear that I don't have to worry about VASK being used by the
> OS post install! That was a big concern for me.
>
> Alright this is what I have done so far: On VirtualB
I'm happy to hear that I don't have to worry about VASK being used by the
OS post install! That was a big concern for me.
Alright this is what I have done so far: On VirtualBox, I created a virtual
DOS machine, set the hard disk to HDD (I chose this because all the
tutorials about PockDOS I've rea
Eric Auer wrote:
>> > And question to QEMU users, can QEMU be configured to not have LBA?
>> >
Jim Hall wrote:
>> I don't see anything in the 'man' page or on the wiki at qemu.org to
>> turn off LBA.
>>
Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> Wouldn’t this be a BIOS image choice?
>
I suppose that's more cor
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM SZIGETVÁRI János via Freedos-user
wrote:
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>
> PS to Jim: Thanks for your work on FreeDOS and making this whole thing
> possible!
You're welcome. Of course, the credit goes to everyone else; I just
had the idea and wrote the early stuff. Other people added t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM SZIGETVÁRI János via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Hi Eric,
>
>> Look what I found in the doslfn.asm source code ;-)
>>
>> Because the Assembler used to "compile" (assemble) *DOSLFN*
>> seems to not know SALC, the author has taken the effort to use
>> SALC by manually add
Hi Eric and Jim,
> Never heard of that. Is it also used for industrial PC?
>
> When I bought my Pocket386, I recall reading that the CPU for the
> Pocket386 (and the Book8088, and the Hand386) is from a disassembled
> industrial system, like an embedded system.
Yes, assume they were scrapped fro
Hi Eric,
Look what I found in the doslfn.asm source code ;-)
>
> Because the Assembler used to "compile" (assemble) *DOSLFN*
> seems to not know SALC, the author has taken the effort to use
> SALC by manually adding the byte 0d6h to the source code :-p
>
> Please comment out the loading of DOSLFN
Hi Jim,
Interestingly, there is a NVIDIA edition of the M6117.
https://theretroweb.com/chipsets/182
https://theretroweb.com/chipset/documentation/m6117d-6272973f0727d519812742.pdf
3.1 Static 386SX Core
The 386SX core is the same as M1386SX of Acer Labs.
Inc. and 100% object code compatible
> > The Pocket 386 has an Ali M6117 SoC, which contains a 386 SX
> > core clocked at 40 MHz.
>
> Never heard of that. Is it also used for industrial PC?
>
When I bought my Pocket386, I recall reading that the CPU for the
Pocket386 (and the Book8088, and the Hand386) is from a disassembled
industr
Wouldn’t this be a BIOS image choice?
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> (moved this reply to a new thread since it doesn't really belong in
> the Pocket386 discussion)
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-us
Hi!
Quite plausible that FAT32 is the default. I assumed that if you install
in advanced mode (see your both.org link) you might be able to partition
manually for FAT16. Another method would be booting DOS from the install
medium without actually installing it. You can then manually start FDISK
>> However, doing SALC followed by OR AL,AL and RET indeed is a
>> legitimate way of using SALC. So what you see is not a crash
>> caused by having bogus data in your UMB area, but instead the
>> crash is caused by the processor of your Pocket 386 not having
>> support for the SALC opcode!
>
>
> Th
(moved this reply to a new thread since it doesn't really belong in
the Pocket386 discussion)
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
[..]
>
> And question to QEMU users, can QEMU be configured to not have LBA?
>
I don't see anything in the 'man' page or on the wiki at
Hi Eric,
Can you test whether the FAT16 trick would have worked as well?
>
Sure, I will check it, I just need a few days to find the time for that.
Also, do the FreeDOS fdisk and format commands have options/parameters
to create FAT16 partitions/file systems? Because I am pretty sure that I
went
Hi!
I recently bought a Pocket 386 machine ... tried to install FreeDOS on it.
...
I had to follow the steps described over at
https://www.both.org/?p=5690 to get FreeDOS to boot properly,
because the BIOS in the Pocket 386 doesn't support LBA addressing only CHS.
Another way may have bee
Dear Members,
I recently bought a Pocket 386 machine, and among others, I also tried to
install FreeDOS on it.
Actually I installed the 1.4 version in VirtualBox, with the virtual hard
drive redirected to a CF card.
There, I had to follow the steps described over at
https://www.both.org/?p=5690 to
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