Well...so I finished my testing late last night with the MSI Wind Netbook.
I ran into an issue the MBR was never updated by FDI 1.2. :/ Figured it
out eventually. You can read more about it here [0]. There's pictures and
video.
Now, I need to produce an ISO now for the eMachines M6805 I have (no
support for USB flash drive boot; tried several BIOSes).
[0] https://sites.google.com/site/lpsantil/fdi12-msi-wind
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Louis Santillan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Is there an ISO yet of FDI/FD 1.2preX? Forgot that M6805 has a broken
> BIOS wrt to USB boot.
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello Eric and all,
>> >
>> > A little more follow up on the USB stick test.
>> >
>> > The same user who was testing, per my suggestion ran it in advanced
>> mode to override
>> > the automatic D: drive as the install target. He said the install ran
>> flawlessly when he
>> > set it to C:\FDOS.
>> >
>> > He did say that he had an issue booting it. And basically, it seems to
>> be issues with the
>> > FDCONFIG paths. So, I will have to see if I can get FreeDOS to boot and
>> load drivers from
>> > an unknown drive letter. FDI doesn't care what drive it is running on.
>> The wrong target
>> > issue was an assumption I made and will fix.
>>
>> Just remove all mentions of absolute drive letters (in FDCONFIG.SYS)
>> entirely. It should still work. "DEVICE=\FDOS\HIMEMX.EXE" That's what
>> I did with my MetaDOS floppy image, and it works (once extracted) atop
>> (RUFUS-made) USB as "C:" or floppy as "A:".
>>
>> > It appears that if I get the booting from G or L or X .... to work, a
>> USB stick installer may be viable.
>>
>> Not all USB sticks are bootable, but most are. Plus, old machines
>> (like my P4) need help (e.g. PLoP boot manager first, which makes it
>> read-only, which isn't ideal but far better than nothing). We always
>> have third-party things like RUFUS or UNetBootIn, too.
>>
>>
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