> On Feb 11, 2019, at 1:37 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just tried to boot FD13LGCY in virtualbox and got (what is to me) the > weirdest error: https://imgur.com/a/EENC2Xf (screenshot) > > As a user, I would expect something labelled "legacy" to behave the same way > previous versions behaved. Meaning, I would expect that image to boot into an > installer of some sort the way 1.2 did.
You cannot use either the 1.2 or 1.3 Legacy CD with VirtualBox. They is a compatibility issue when you VirtualBox + Original El Torito Boot CD + FreeDOS/Drivers. Who the actual bug belongs to is unknown. But I suspect it is in VirtualBox somewhere. The installer knows you have booted the LGCY CD under VirtualBox. So, instead of continuing until the system freezes, it immediately drops out with that error message. You should use a normal (either LiveCD) to install in VirtualBox. Note, there is another VirtualBox issue I discovered as well. If you boot the LiveCD2 as a Live version of FreeDOS. You cannot just reboot and switch to Install FreeDOS on the boot menu. If you switch from one to the other You must power down the VM. Or, the system will crash at some point. This should not be the case, but it is. > I ran through a quick test install on virtualbox 6/windows 10 host with both > of the live cds. 500mb virtual hard disks, 44mb of ram. Both installs worked > without much in the way of glitches. > > I didn't try the live disk option in virtualbox. > > Personally, I feel like it would cause less confusion to have the "install" > option on the menu above the "live cd" option -but perhaps that's > bikeshedding. > > > I tried installing on qemu and ran into the same problem that's already been > mentioned; it's unable to locate the installation files. Both cds fail in the > same point in the installer using Qemu, wether I use 44mb or 128mb. > > Trying the live cd (cd2) I got the following error while booting: > https://gyazo.com/fff7bfa4dc696b7ea965a625ed7c6e74 > > The command line I used for qemu is: > > qemu-system-i386 -m 128 -hda \fd13rc1.vdi -cdrom FD13LIVE.ISO -boot d > > (fd13rc1.vdi had already been created using qemu-img) > > > I'm running both qemu and virtualbox on a windows 10 home edition computer. > This is very interesting. Are you all running the latest version of QEMU? If so, you all should get the same result (good or bad). > Thank you! > > -Random > >> On 2/9/2019 6:50 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> We really do want to hear your opinions on which LiveCD we should keep. >> >> They both have very specific advantages and disadvantages. >> >> Just to pick a couple. >> >> CD1 can run with 64MB of ram and can use GBs. It also uses very little space >> on the CD. >> >> CD2 is probably more compatible (CD1 doesn’t run under QEMU). It needs 128mb >> of ram. More RAM is unused. It requires a good chunk of real estate on the >> CD (50mb). But, it starts a little faster too. >> >> Make sure you download them, try them out, and let us know your thoughts. >> Because 1 of them will be discontinued with RC2. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
