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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by Oso2k, 30.01.2024, 22:37

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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 bought 512MB CF for <$3 https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255799922748202.html

The test below uses this 256MB for $11 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018X7RJQ4

I have a Book8088 v2. I did some testing. I imaged the FD13BOOT.IMG from FD 1.3 Floppy Edition[0] to my slot on my Gotek formatted USB stick. I then used a Dell 316SX (a 386) with a Gotek FDD emulator & XT-IDE r625 to boot FD v1.3 over floppy. Next, I FDISK'd a 256MB CF card as FAT16 (CHS 984/16/32). Rebooted again to floppy and then ran `format C:/q/s`. I then copied a few binaries from the FD floppy to the CF card. Rebooted to verify the 256MB CF card would boot and it worked.

Finally, popped out the CF card of the 316SX and placed it in the slot on the Book8088. Booted & it worked[1][2]. See the pic below for reference.

No magic other than I've been working to restore the Dell 316SX so it now has a NIC with the XT-IDE r625 BIOS in it's ROM slot. The original 3.5" & 5.25" drives aren't spinning and I need to refurb those next.

You could try imaging a small (<2GB) USB stick with FD13BOOT.IMG and try booting off that as well [3]. It might take a reflash of the BIOS. They'll need to hit 'A' quickly to redirect XT-IDE to boot off floppy instead of the CF. I might test that as well.


[0] https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos...stributions/1.3/official/FD13-FloppyEdition.zip
[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vq2RvNgPNxrCOuVEFDruw4NwJYCh4Zvv/view?usp=drive_link
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NsKzz5WK4fw_wn-2WBnaH8sTsIyGs-ZN/view?usp=drive_link
[3] https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/book-808...ry-and-modification-thread.1245155/post-1343495

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