From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Davros Subject: Re: can boot images, but not linux dirs Date: 10 Mar 2003 12:47:25 +0000 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1047300446.2947.7.camel@ghostee.attbi.com> References: <1047282495.2321.12.camel@ghostee.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1047282495.2321.12.camel@ghostee.attbi.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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, > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >