On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:32 PM Random Liegh via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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). > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > Not sure if this is useful, but I was able to install a full system in VirtualBox 6.0.2 using the FD13FLOP.IMG floppy image and FD13LGCY.ISO CD image at the same time. I generally stick to the basic installer or just a boot disk + fdinst, but am downloading the live CD 1 to see what it's like. -- --Andy
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