(I'm not sure I'm a member of the FreeDOS kernel mailinglist, can't find anything, so sticking to development list)
Right now when experimenting I'm experiencing an issue: switching to B: by entering B: seems to give the following error: "Error reading from drive B: DOS area: drive not ready (A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail. Situation: Under VmWare Workstation 7.04 (Win64), a single floppydrive with inside it a 1.44MB diskette with Syslinux 4.04 on it. This Syslinux bootloader loads MEMDISK, then a 360KB bootable image located on the diskette. The 360KB image becomes A:, meanwhile pushing real diskette from which it loaded, back to B:. Trying to perform B: (or DIR B:) triggers the error. Troubleshooting steps taken so far: * replace the 360KB FreeDOS image file by a MSDOS 7.10 one (take bootdisk, open in WinImage, delete everything besides kernel and shell, defragment image, convert to 360KB, save) works flawlessly, can issue a DIR B: and see Syslinux files, the 360KB image, everything. * booting the 360KB FreeDOS image from Syslinux 4.04 on harddisk then do B: works fine * booting the 360KB FreeDOS image from Syslinux 4.04 on CDROM then do B: works fine * try older MEMDISK from Syslinux 3.86 What I've not done yet: * replace Syslinux 4.04 by Syslinux 3.86 , I remember old Syslinux worked fine, allowing to save space by SHELL=B:\COMMAND.COM B:\ /P=B:\AUTOEXEC.BAT for example or DISKCOPY A: B:\FDBOOT.IMG /O /G /X As MSDOS doesn't have this issue I'd guess it's a FreeDOS kernel bug, maybe some disk shuffling problem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
