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posted by roytam, 04.02.2024, 14:22

> > if you have uudecode and xdelta3, you can create one yourself:
>
> Had to install sharutils and xdelta3 on my Debian machine but I think I've
> got this part now.
>
> > then you should able to boot it on 86box(A drive with FreeDOS, and
> > 512M_CF.img [CHS=1006/16/63] as IDE 0:0, press "a" key on XT-IDE boot
> delay
> > prompt)
>
> Trying to boot a known-good 1440 KiB FAT12 diskette image using XTIDE
> results in the display of "Error 2h!", either with my boot loader
> (-D_COMPAT_FREEDOS -D_LBA=0 -D_USE_PART_INFO=0) or with
> FreeDOS's native boot loader. The same error occurs when I first eject the
> diskette from the drive.
>
> [image]
>
> What machine type did you set up? On the "Machine" page I chose "Machine
> type" 8088, "Machine" Generic XT clone, "CPU type" Intel 8088, "Speed" 16,
> "Memory" 640 KiB. On the "Storage controllers" page I chose "HD Controller"
> [ISA] PC/XT XTIDE, "FD Controller" Internal controller. On the "Hard disks"
> page I have my "IDE (0:0)" with C:H:S 1006:16:63, 495 MiB, "Speed" RAM Disk
> (max. speed). On the "Floppy & CD-ROM drives" page I selected "Type" 3.5"
> 1.44M (presumably they mean 90mm 1440 KiB) for the first drive, "Turbo
> timings" off, "Check BPB" on.
>
> Also, whenever I hard reset the machine it pops up this screen:
>
> Generic Turbo XT Bios 1987
>
> System error #04, Continue?
>
> Pressing any key in response to this seems to continue to boot as expected.
You may choose machine "Xi8088" as it use (almost) same BIOS as Book8088.

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