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Trouble running RxDOS (Users)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 23.06.2008, 20:06

> 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.

It runs in VPC, that's sufficient for now.

> > 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.)

No, LFN services are active. In VPC, if I run "mkdir" (without param), I get 2 FAT entries, first an LFN one, then a "short" one (both contain garbage, though). In Qemu, "dir" doesn't just display nothing, it "hangs".

> Actually RxDOS isn't really usable yet

After the first rather bad impression it's beginning to make fun. I can load JemmEx from the commandline ("jemmex noinvlpg load"), hdpmi32 works and - after a small bugfix concerning int 21h, ah=0Ah - FD debug.com/debugx.com work as well.

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MS-DOS forever!

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