From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Davros Subject: can boot images, but not linux dirs Date: 10 Mar 2003 07:48:14 +0000 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1047282495.2321.12.camel@ghostee.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hi all, Bit of a newbie at dosemu - I'm using a recent version of dosemu, the package that came in 2 tarballs and included FreeDOS as well. After following the howtows and tinkering, I was able to boot an old w95 boot disk image - not their recovery disk, merely a bootable dos7 disk (with Norton Ghost on it as well, something that I have no interest in running). I have no particular interest in booting this version of dos, but that is all that has worked so far. i have no real dos partition on my machine, 100% linux. I just happened to have this floppy disk image around... Anyway, the instructions say to execute, say, xdosemu - it starts to load and then exists. I have also mounted the disk image and copied files out into a dir I named, "bootdir" - same result, it looks like it begins and opens an xwindow for a split second, then closes with no message, boot log full of errors. These are the same files in the boot image - this leads me to believe that I have an obvious error. If it's something deeper, I can of course include all the info, specific version, boot.log, and so forth. I changed nothing in the config except of course the virtualfloppy setting in the boot image case, and hdimage setting in the other 2 cases, freedos and bootdir. Thanks,