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
>
On 28 October 2016 at 18:04, Simon Atkinson
wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I presume that FreeDOS, like other versions
> On Oct 28, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Simon Atkinson
> 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 vers
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 wrot
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 FreeDOS dependant on 80286+? No
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
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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] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/
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 c