Problem Solved !!
A Giant Thank You to Eric Auer and Kenneth J. Davis. Without a floppy
drive present, the drive numbering was wrong, giving the DJ Mechanism
failure message.
FreeDOS install done via ODIN 1.44 floppy, then kernel.sys replaced.
Both kernels listed below worked but I will stic
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:20:30 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
>There was a recent fix to the unstable kernel to better support
>floppyless systems. If possible please try a current 2035w from
>http://www.fdos.org/kernel/ and let me know if that makes a difference.
>Note: -W is the development [UNS
Robert Ralston wrote:
...
But with kernel 1.1.35w Build 2035w-unstable from the 1440 ODIN
distribution, everything works with a laptop *if and only if* there is
a floppy drive present. If there is a floppy drive either in a bay or
connected via USB, then the FreeDOS partition boots normally
We use FreeDOS on laptops for an easy software refresh procedure.
Hard drive is 2 primary partitions, 15 and 5 GB for example, with XP
on big one, FreeDOS on small one.
With Norton's scriptable gdisk32 on XP side, we can unhide and make
active the FreeDOS partition, run ghost from the FreeDOS
