similar to: Syslinux DOS-based installer in FreeDOS

> 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

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

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

_ 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: "Invalid Opcode at AD04 5080 0206 5080 2021 3666 FFFD 0083

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 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size

Hi, I did found the problem, a combination of 2 factor. 1- I taught that I did install the latest syslinux, but in fact it was the 3.36 version. 2- Thank to kevin Connelly, he point me to a problem he got with mkdosfs command. The default FAT16 do not work, but the FAT12 do. By adding -F12 to the mkdosfs command fix the problem. The default F16 do seem to work for <8M floppy image. Thank you

Sorry for the delay, I should not send email on an holiday week-end. I'll try to answer all the questions by explaining what does work for me right now, and what I'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

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 successfully writing to the MBR

Hi Maybe HPA or Murali could help me with this one, or anyone who got the following working. I spend numerous hours reading the list and googling without success. I'd like to create a bootable USB stick and CDROM that will do the following. I will have a menu, from which I could pick a specific dos image (not partition). The dos images could have up to 20Megs in size. The goal is to have

On 08Jul2014--09Jul2014, Ady, Peter Anvin, Gene Cumm, Bernd 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.

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 FreeDOS FDD image that defaults to a clean boot with

I've recently purchased an SSD with the goal of having a portable MS-Windows installation, something which Windows 8's "Windows to Go" feature allows (install to, and boot/run from, USB flash device). Housing the SSD in an external Zalman VE300 case allows presenting ISO files as hardware CD/DVD/BD drive with inserted medium. Having the ISO files present, it's tempting

Hello, there is a "fdboot.img" floppy drive image included with FreeDOS ISO file. It's a floppy image file: root at debian64:~# file -s /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS BEta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x40, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes

In other words: I'm suggesting to use WinImage as it also allows easy injection of new files *and* updating of already existing files. May I ask which vendor is distributing a DOS FW update that is 20MB? I'd like to see the files. Sometimes you just need the .bin/.rom and the actual FW update EXE and it would fit a 5MB FDD image. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:03 PM, R S <rene.shuster at

Hi all, I'm going to create an USB flash disk. Here's the partition structure. Device Boot 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

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-defensive) 6 Boot no UMB (defensive) 7 Boot

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: ...

I've got $SUBJ almost working except for the DOS 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

2018-06-26 2:10 GMT+08:00 H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com>: > On 06/18/18 13:06, R S via Syslinux wrote: >> 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 >>

(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 provide CD-ROM and PXE boot support for my boot disk. And it works great with MS-DOS. However,