#286 v1.3RC3 installation aborts in QEMU with unpartitioned "disks"
When installing FreeDOS 1.3RC3 in QEMU from the LiveCD, using unpartitioned images as C: disk aborts without further information after the language selection step.
This behaviour applies ONLY on disk images which have not been partitioned in advance (f.i, upgrades from previous versions work fine)
This behaviour happens both with RAW or QCOW2 images
The easiest workaround is just to create the partition from the A:> prompt (after the instalation abort) with FDISK /FPRMT, and rerun the installation, which works without glitches then
The flag /FPRMT was the only way i found to create FAT32 partitions, but it could be just me being a little out of practice.
Execution context: Archlinux with kernel 5.8.14 as host system, QEMU 5.1.0 (using qemu-system-i386)
Thanks for the feedback.
I believe the issue you experienced may be similar to one discovered after the release of RC3 during the development of the Floppy Edition. The end result was that the installer logic and some of the external utilities were updated in both versions. I think it has been resolved for the upcoming RC4.
Thanks. Eagerly awaiting for the new RC.
Hi Werner!
Sorry to hijack your report.
As you write you are using QEMU 5.1.0, would you be so kind to test for this bug: DN2 (disk navigator): arrows double effect, numpad arrows are fine?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Robert
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Bugs: #291
Could you verify this issue no longer occurs in 1.3-RC4?
I worked with the latest QEMU and FDT2411 /12 in the last time and noticed no installation problems, but of course fdisk and format were updated since that time.
So could you check this once again? Thx.
As others have noted, this has been fixed. Every install I do in QEMU starts with an unpartitioned disk image. I am using QEMU emulator version 9.1.2 (original bug was reported with QEMU 5.1.0)