Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:03:08 +0200 From: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Karl Dunn <kdunn@acm.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: very slight OT: creating a *bootable* MSDOS7 memstick Message-ID: <CAM8r67B1tKFcJkLh4-Oz%2BjZ=QAKdZSAgu0xWVGJzKQJE85Ue8g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkQD6GUbDCS=hphPtemijB8pjrzZvUY95Zve%2BZfq_Mntw@mail.gmail.com> References: <mailman.19568.1598035936.4501.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <alpine.LRH.2.03.2008211620530.31945@acm.org> <CAGBxaXnfwLyw2XLw7nC7K1Pwab=XbrxWhHTvuCO88VQBz6vh1w@mail.gmail.com> <20200822080950.9fe3cd7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAM8r67Cmek7n9eJtScD%2B%2BC2vaM-kY0L2Tej1Mn9xaREeinoPzQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXmQabLHancj4mxejve3rC9SAe=L0WLEmha04PYNuR8Kig@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67Cp7j5sFbtFbH1-RyjHho==4vUbOa4wz493utLR4rEu4w@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkQD6GUbDCS=hphPtemijB8pjrzZvUY95Zve%2BZfq_Mntw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 3:48 PM Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:35 AM Tomasz CEDRO wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 3:29 PM Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> > Nice idea and I just tried it only one problem: When I tried to start = "mini-windows XP" the screen flashed once and returned to the boot menu and= I see no way to break out the boot menu (the command line stuff are also m= enu driven and ignore ctrl-c). None of the menu options were usable in my= case for the task I am attempting. >> Try different versions there were some problems with this stuff.. I >> was using 9.7 and it worked.. later releases did not work for me :-) >> >> https://www.tomek.cedro.info/files/service/HirensBootCD/ > > Same problem with it. Tried 9.7 and 15.2. Sorry to hear. Are you using USB-CDROM? It worked for me some years back then, at least some of versions, particularly this 9.7 I still keep just in case. You may want to try on another computer, review BIOS settings, etc, just to see if that works anywhere else. Maybe that simple MS-DOS prompt would be enough - you were asking for MS-DOS prompt and all those base menus and utilities are based on MS-DOS..? Maybe there is yet another way to achieve your goal? Depending on how precious is the result you may simply get your hands directly on the hardware and dump/replace the memory contents :-) --=20 CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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