Hi, thanks for replying.
On 2/11/2019 11:17 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
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.
Thanks for the heads' up!
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).
I'm running Qemu 3.1.0, 64 bit, from https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/
...the Dec 11 2018 build (which, as far as I know, is the latest for
windows).
I've compiled a more recent version in Linux; but I wouldn't use that
for testing because it's inside of a virtual machine (which might lead
to unpredictable, possibly un-reproducible results).
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