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Trouble running RxDOS (Users)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 23.06.2008, 16:57

> did anyone succeed to run the LFN-aware version of rxdos (source files
> dated 08.08.99)?

Yes it works fine for me. (Although RxDOSCMD has some command line editing bugs and not all partitions are logged in.) The 1999-08-08 source files are version 7.1.5 from ibiblio.org/FreeDOS mirrors. (Though the binaries (rxdos-exes.zip) are dated 1999-08-24.)

> I'm unable to run this version, neither on a real machine
> nor in Qemu. On the real hardware - with a FAT32 drive - it just displays
> multiple times "booting rxdos" and freezes.

Do you have "non-DOS" (either logical or primary) partitions on this machine? ("non-DOS" is anything except FAT, FAT32, Extended. Hidden partitions are also "non-DOS".) Although the problem doesn't occur on my DOS machine info.txt on ibiblio.org states they're problems booting RxDOS if it finds "non-DOS" partitions.

Anyway, the FAT32 support of this RxDOS version seems rather good. It didn't corrupted my 7 GiB FAT32 drive when I tested it. (The info.txt reports a bug on >2GiB drives but I didn't see it yet.)

> In Qemu with just a FD device
> and no HDs, I get a A:\> prompt, but all what works is VER and CD, no
> possiblility to start an external program or running DIR.

Sounds like running RxDOSCMD without LFN services... Something blocking file services for RxDOSCMD. (It doesn't have any help or error messages yet, so DIR just displays nothing if it got an error.)

> it "works" with VPC 2007 for me as well. With "works", I mean the
> DIR command displays something and the prompt returns, which is ways more
> than what I got with Qemu & Bochs.

Actually RxDOS isn't really usable yet

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Complete thread:

• Trouble running RxDOS - Japheth, 23.06.2008, 11:12 (Users)
  • Trouble running RxDOS - flox, 23.06.2008, 12:35
  • Trouble running RxDOS - rr, 23.06.2008, 14:30
    • Trouble running RxDOS - Japheth, 23.06.2008, 15:28
      • Trouble running RxDOS - ecm, 23.06.2008, 16:57
        • Trouble running RxDOS - Japheth, 23.06.2008, 20:06
          • Trouble running RxDOS - ecm, 23.06.2008, 21:10
            • Trouble running RxDOS - Rugxulo, 24.06.2008, 02:10
              • Trouble running RxDOS - Japheth, 24.06.2008, 09:32
              • Trouble running RxDOS - ecm, 24.06.2008, 12:47
                • Trouble running RxDOS - Rugxulo, 25.06.2008, 20:23
          • Trouble running RxDOS - Steve, 26.06.2008, 20:53
            • Trouble running RxDOS - Japheth, 27.06.2008, 18:47
              • Trouble running RxDOS - Laaca, 28.06.2008, 11:18
                • Trouble running RxDOS - ecm, 28.06.2008, 19:36
                  • Trouble running RxDOS - rr, 28.06.2008, 22:31