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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 30.01.2024, 16:09

> I am still astonished how you made it to make MS-DOS work again after the
> FD kernel did not run through. Del kernel.sys should not work from this
> position - only if you connect the CF with another machine.

Easy. I just made a backup with ddrescue on my Linux machine. Similar to:

ddrescue /dev/sdd book8088-bak.img

Than I just return a backup to the CF card with "dd". Something like:

dd if=book8088-bak.img /dev/sdd

And I also have several CF cards. I wouldn't play with the only working CF card without having any spares.


> So my proposal would be: If you have one more empty 512 MB CF card, (I just
> looked, the prices vary from 14 Euro till 225 Euro, crazy), check if your
> card reader supports read/write from DOS, if yes, try to format it from an
> external machine, (dont forget Active Partition), run sys and test this CF.
This will have to wait. I have spare CF cards, but I currently don't have access to a machine with a DOS installation.

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