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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 30.01.2024, 19:25

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> 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.
I don't really have a reader right now.

I use this:
[image] [image]

There are two things to this: IDE to USB and CF to IDE controllers put together. And this works well enough.

I had 2 card readers but they mysteriously "passed away" few days ago. Haven't yet got the replacements.

I guess this thing might be one of the reasons the images don't boot. But I'm puzzled that they work under emulators like DOSBOX-X and Qemu.

I'll get a real card reader in a few days and will try again.

I currently put away my DOS machine in the closet. Although I have a small itx machine with some older AMD SOC. I might try puting FreeDOS on it with legacy USB support. But if the problem is with CF pin order, that might not help either. :(

Is it possible to transfer DOS mbr and system (what sys does in DOS) from Linux? I found somewhere a script sys-freedos-linux from Eric Auer (from several years back), but I didn't have any success with using it. It does write a MBR into the root of the drive, but the boot stops after writing "Freedos" on the boot line. It doesn't pick-up the kernel.sys from the root of the drive.

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