can boot images, but not linux dirs

can boot images, but not linux dirs

[Davros]

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,

Re: can boot images, but not linux dirs

[Davros]

Hi,

Just wanted to add that I've found a temp work-around.  I mounted my
image and then copied generic.com and the lredir link to it.  I the
booted into my image, and used lredir to point to my home (-home doesn't
work).  Once I did that, I was able to, for example, enter the
freedos/dosemu folder and run some commands.  

So now I have a small "boot drive", and as much of anything else as I
want - ok, I guess, as long as I can cram all boot options that I could
ever want into a 1.44 disk image...though I supposed I could lredir in
the autoexec.bat, and load some boot progs/options from where ever...

This opens it up for me, so that I don't need a hdimage (can't seem to
find the commands to create one???), nor a linux folder as my bootdir.

If anyone has a more elegant way, I'm all ears...

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:48, Davros wrote:
> 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,
> 
> 
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