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I would like to boot FreeDOS ISO image from USB memory stick using syslinux. I have done following: 1) I created a partition to my 2GB memory stick: root at debian64:~# fdisk -lu /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2013 MB, 2013265920 bytes 62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 3932160 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 5...

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" > > parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS > > variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if > > I'm wrong). > > This sounds like either a bug in FreeDOS or another undesirable > negative interaction. > My guess is that if this was a bug in FreeDOS (as in "something" that has nothing to do with the syslinux.com command) then it wou...

Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if I'm wrong). Using FreeDOS kernel v.2041 (386f32), Syslinux v.6.03-pre11 and either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions, executing: syslinux.com -m -i c: or: syslinux.com -f -m -i c: will not write to the MBR, and will ruin the VBR. To be clear, the "-m" parameter...

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:22 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > On 05/24/2014 01:58 PM, Ady wrote: > > > > My guess is that if this was a bug in FreeDOS (as in "something" that > > has nothing to do with the syslinux.com command) then it would be > > somehow triggered by other DOS programs trying to write to the MBR. > > Considering that there are several (open source) DOS programs that > > are capable of successfu...

...ot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 537911 268955+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 537912 1598793 530441 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdb1 I used for installing boot loader(syslinux) and other small standalone utilities. /dev/sdb2 is used for FreeDOS and I have copied necessary files to the partition. Here's my syslinux.cfg in /dev/sdb1. UI menu.c32 TIMEOUT 300 default localboot MENU TITLE System Rescue Flash Disk LABEL memtest MENU LABEL Memtest86+ (4.20) KERNEL memtest LABEL freedos MENU LABEL FreeDOS 1.1 COM32 chain.c32 APPEND h...

I and some other people have problems with running the freedos image included in Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), when using memdisk for floppy emulation. Memdisk starts booting the image and freedos shows the following menu: 0 Boot Clean 1 Boot UMBPCI (silent) 2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal) 3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive) 4 Boot EMM386 (optimal) 5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensi...

To make say a BIOS flash tool available over PXE, my impression is that a typical procedure goes like this: modify a generic FreeDOS 1440K disk image to contain the EXE and change the AUTOEXEC.BAT to launch that EXE, then make the 1440K IMG available on the PXE server. But more recent BIOS flash EXE are too large and won't fit on the 1440K, not even 3840K, so now we have to look into making a custom FreeDOS ISO image or...

...ernd Blaauw, Shao Miller, Kenneth Davis, wrote: > [...] Thank you all for your responses. You helped me solve my problem. For anyone else that runs into similar trouble and finds this thread, here follow summaries of what I've learned. To recap, our PXE server holds Dell BIOS updates in FreeDOS floppy images booted via MEMDISK. For newer hardware those update programs are huge, so require enlarged floppy images. (I prefer floppy images over hard drive images because it seems easier to quickly loop mount and modify a floppy image in Linux, than to loop mount a buried partition from wi...

The narod.ru images are super outdated (FreeDOS kernel 2028) unfortunately. If you are interested I could provide a 5MB FDD image template based on FreeDOS 2041 kernel (the latest available at that time in 2014) where you would just inject your ROM and EXE (and possibly adjust autoexec.bat to autostart/apply the FW update). It's a minimal F...

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" > parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS > variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if > I'm wrong). This sounds like either a bug in FreeDOS or another undesirable negative interaction. I vaguely recall FreeDOS having some sort of HDD-acceleration (caching/prefetching). A quick Google returns "lbacache" and "uide.sys". If so, a te...

Dear Syslinux folks, For a firmware update I am following the Gentoo Wiki [1] to create a floppy image of 20 MB, so that the vendor update utility fits. Unfortunately, FreeDOS does not load, and it seems to hang loading the FreeDOS kernel. The original FreeDOS image boots. Do you know if that issue is memdisk related? It?s started from GRUB with the commands below. linux16 /boot/memdisk floppy initrd16 /boot/freedos.img boot Kind regards, Paul [1]: http...

(FreeDOS developers, I apologize for the redundant parts of this message. But I want to bring the SYSLINUX folks into the discussion, and the SourceForge mailing list archives are broken.) Background: I have a little Sourceforge project (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/) for which I use SYSLINUX to prov...

Mr Anvin, is there a specific loading address used with the Syslinux bootsector (to load ldlinux.sys)? like msdos 0x70, freedos 0x60 we're trying to have a SYS program that can create bootsector for other OS's than FreeDOS only. not much luck though :( this way I'm trying to avoid the use of syslinux.exe/com (need the diskspace that it would save by not including this program) I found a way around the 386-dep...

Hello: I read the archive posting for September 2005, http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-September/005809.html, where you stated that you have a freedos diskette that allows you to download and run an iso like it was a cd in a drive. I am in need of the ability to have a freedos bootable cd that contains other Linux ISO's that I could mount and boot to. In your experience with freedos is this possible? I have not found good instructions...

_ Vbox 4.2.18 VM booted with FreeDOS floppy, kernel 2041, no config.sys, no autoexec.bat, no TSR's, no memory managers. _ The booting floppy includes syslinux.com 6.02. _ Two HDD images attached to the VM, MBR + 1 FAT16 formatted partition each. Executing syslinux.com -i c: (or "d:") results in the following error:...

...OS bit where the CD needs to be read. My pxe config: label Firmware menu label Update IPMI firmware kernel memdisk append keeppxe raw iso initrd=<isofile> The ISO is about 400Mb, and works fine when I boot it from an actual CDROM drive. It also boots fine over PXE, I can see FreeDOS being booted up etc. The problem is - once in DOS, there is no access to the CD. The CDROM driver doesn't load due to "no cdrom found". Does this ring a bell with anyone? The ISO is from a manufacturer, but I can modify it if needed (change the DOS setup for instance). >From th...

...Davis, wrote: > > [...] > > Thank you all for your responses. You helped me solve my problem. For > anyone else that runs into similar trouble and finds this thread, here > follow summaries of what I've learned. > > To recap, our PXE server holds Dell BIOS updates in FreeDOS floppy > images booted via MEMDISK. For newer hardware those update programs are > huge, so require enlarged floppy images. (I prefer floppy images over > hard drive images because it seems easier to quickly loop mount and > modify a floppy image in Linux, than to loop mount a burie...

Hi I'm using memdisk as part of CD Shell' isolinux. I've created custom floppy disk image 8440kB size. I've put FreeDOS kernel and bootsector into the floppy. Boot process goes fine with this command: isolinux /boot/memdisk initrd=/ximg/fdos.img c=60 h=8 s=36 floppy The problems begin when I try to run FreeDOS memory manager emm386 from the floppy image. my config.sys: ... 1?DEVICE=HIMEM.EXE /VERBOSE 1?DEVICE=...

Dear WINE Users/Programmers/Developers, I am currently starting a new project called BoxOS. We are going to try port the WINE System to a FreeDOS Enviroment. Here is a more information on the project: The BoxOS Kernel is based upon FreeDOS Beta 7 ("SPEARS"). That version of FreeDOS includes the Kernel 2023b and sys updated to 2024h and the FreeCom 0.82 updated to 0.83beta28. We have edited these Kernel's a fair bit. We are...

...d like to do. I have a script to create the a USB stick or an ISO image. The boot media contains many DOS images, and I use versamenu to select one of them. If my DOS image is smaller than 8megs, everything is working fine as expected. To create my dos image, I did use Murali script and pick the freedos floppy image from http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDSTD.144.gz I modify cwhosthe script, put FDSTD.144 as the OLDIMAGE I set NEWIMAGE to dexter1.img I set the SIZEMB to 10 The script return the following information Your floppy image is in dexter1.img. When using it in iso/pxelinux, dont fo...