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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 30.01.2024, 21:15

> PS: Everything would have been easier when you had told us from beginning
> how you modified the system.:-( :-(
I haven't done any hardware modification to the system.

It came with CF Card with MS-DOS preinstalled. I did a backup of that with ddrescue. Than after trying something I would restore that image with "dd" to get a working system again. So, it would look like this:

I tried to install FreeDOS by using "sys c:" in several ways:
1) By running it on device. This failed with an error you saw on one of the first images.

Every time I tried and it didn't work, I restored the previously backed-up image after that.

2) By mounting the backup image inside DOSBox-X and trying to run sys C: from there than writing the image to CF card anad trying to boot it. That also failed.

Hope it's clearer now. Cheers.
Every time I tried and it didn't work, I restored the previously backed-up image after that.

I tried several FreeDOS kernels 2039-2043, including the one linked by @boeckman earlier in the topic. They didn't work.

I restored the previously backed-up working image after that.

I also tried his modified CF image. That gave me a "light show" from one of the images.

Than I again restored previously backed-up working image.

So, I didn't really make significant changes to the card itself as I always returned one of the working backup images.

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