Re: [Freedos-devel] CheckHDD for FreeDOS 1.2 Installer

[M V. <net...@gm...>]

Hello,

Well, I had sometimes problems.
I had that laptop thing free and now because I have (in total with the
laptop also counted) 2 laptops and 1 desktop I decided, because it was an
old thing to use it for testing, exploring and playing around.

But anyway, If I have no other thing to explore I install freedos on it. It
is maybe bad for the HDD but it's free and old. I don't care :). But the
problems I had (I have FDBASECD.ISO) where: I was looking for my USB (it
didn't support that) so I typed every drive letter I could imagine it was
on. But that was not very handy. This is the error:

" ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION OCCURRED
CS=0029 IP=8A53 SS=174C SP=368E DS=000 ES=174C

EAX=00100008 EBX=0000003
ECX=000006CE EDX=000039
ESI=0000002 EDI=000014A5 EBP=000037A9

Opcodes @CS:IP F0 75 03 E9 A8 04 83 7E

Aborting program

EMM386 - Unable to continue - please reboot="

After the last "=" it where random number to fast to see.
After reboot just fine.

I pressed a key (no idea which one) and I got the answer "--" (flashing)
and it was constantly beeping.
After reboot just fine.

After that (now) I booted it up.
And I get the answer:

"KERNEL.SYS KERNEL.SYS KERNEL.SYS KERNEL.SYS"

It goes on with that until it filled the screen and then it goes further
with doing that.
After reboot not fine.

Now the laptop stands in a cupboard   (I mean something else but I don't
know how it is named. I also can't find it and I'm on my mobile and I can't
look it up.  So if you want to know what I really mean translate (Dutch to
English) "kast". Sorry for that)
With a layer of dust waiting for an operating system (If you have one I
like to hear :)   )

Maarten
Op 31 aug. 2015 15:47 schreef "JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU" <jch...@cp...
>:

> I have a 'lil HP from around the year 2000.It had windows XP on it,with a
> 7 GB harddrive (It's a little netbook,which is why the HD is small).It used
> to boot into FreeDOS perfectly (I would boot into a flashdrive and run
> FORMAT /S on the HD).But,now,if I try to do that,it boots,with a bunch of
> random ASCII characters on the screen.It will prompt me with ("Pr3ss F? $$!
> 0 cont1nu3").Only the F1 key works.And pressing it simply repeats the
> message.Then again,the problem only started AFTER I installed GRUB (for
> linux).When I formatted my HD,I think I may have forgotten to remove
> GRUB.Because JUST before I boot,the blue screen of GRUB flashes and
> disappears almost instantly.
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:51 AM, M Vrm <net...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an old laptop (for windows xp) which I used for many years, it has
>> a 60gb hard drive and I have installed freedos many times.
>>
>> I have an answer on all of these:
>>
>> > Can FreeDOS be installed on a partition >2gb.
>> > Will it work above the 2gb limit?
>> > Will it boot from the second primary DOS partition on the same drive?
>> > You get the idea.
>>
>> 1. Yes it can be installed very completely nothing missing etc. I have
>> done this many times. I had to figure out how but now it's easy. It's not
>> an other way for install.
>>
>> 2. It works (with fat32). It detects all the 60gbs. And works beautiful
>> no errors , crashes etc.
>>
>> 3. Yes also tried it. It works from the second partition. But if you had
>> windows xp on it, you can't use xp anymore until Freedos is deleted. It
>> will completely "takeover" because freedos doesn't detect the other
>> partition with xp on it so it won't let you boot that. Otherwise windows xp
>> can't boot because XP won't show his boot manager, freedos uses that
>> already.
>>
>> Sorry for my English as always.
>>
>> I'm Dutch
>>
>> I hope you can use it!
>>
>> Maarten
>>
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