From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Aug 22 14:03:33 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C693BC1E2 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:03:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek@cedro.info) Received: from mail-wr1-x441.google.com (mail-wr1-x441.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::441]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1O1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BYg8h6Srgz4fgg for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:03:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek@cedro.info) Received: by mail-wr1-x441.google.com with SMTP id f7so4472503wrw.1 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:03:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cedro.info; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eYmFmBjOqw1LxYwXNN+tAUW8sm5MdEp9mW8qR/6ndkw=; b=V4GZOC+wxWFFSrI5K+pfUWzOGSGaaz3UdF07dkuPFyCp3qhmFfiS9RutvrNkc2lqpI dFQgbZL97Gyy0vXyTUBDpjhGrwtnhCaBnjuXxKs22GMkoObbuTVJMmWjwYa/tn4Nxx3w tSJq+S/cHAa4CGj7/Q/sXbXT4DfFtN5KkkC58S4w3zAftRbXSQsTXEBo4wtgqdlHN9EQ GCBzpxolaY1V/Aez2kH7JNmCVfGuDZ+QoNcN1FJ2vT6Pd5BKnFEWRIbqVT3Max6yUSyY gxB4oyYINvOedJhooO3R1ElNH0BPA6Rsy3CufeMsj7naK+asm5o1T5jtaRVHlkfyauyr S2uw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eYmFmBjOqw1LxYwXNN+tAUW8sm5MdEp9mW8qR/6ndkw=; b=SiZHV4HUK03sIF4OXzrM06/i3m5zyGtptbH3hLiTD473wbpa3DVNjG/S2f3N0QxcYx 0BfJOcGyTCZp3jyeWCpsI1iWc5z13cogLbAGSHaxMQJepRYdXmbLh/sXeTTrfiXNiq9V 5sXTxEsA6BDfGgZtqjOSSXDWSbQVCpxgqNreoSEts/ZgHLLS3679zrUX0LkJeyCaCVoT F/MDqHNJLjk/9Dzkt4wOVUEGHsQEfKwE6BMkxw2GxlsSgS3GVIQWcjMd1K9EvczzjlkW Yr0HO7WwRJiNd9AbjrNCBmiJt3WZVutiwRTmIRso01C6SRUPIh65/wZcm4Alpk1rB6CQ P4Rw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531b92oD9Sz4uiByRTKaa+c2144jIEZ/96aiPS1PcMXxJ9XtSF/B d09YgX83AhHI8MpKEWQj0ObQX6aaoweZxKWSQzX1aw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxxQh+oRY5qpvv+fBDO8oqWUIDEyCeNGBwrJNU6Ahy/z0NZ0oZWqOoehjM0vwmBmx3NkBi8qNhHxIsn0wDFs0A= X-Received: by 2002:adf:f507:: with SMTP id q7mr7309587wro.343.1598105010805; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:03:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200822080950.9fe3cd7d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: From: Tomasz CEDRO Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:03:08 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: very slight OT: creating a *bootable* MSDOS7 memstick To: Aryeh Friedman Cc: Polytropon , Karl Dunn , FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BYg8h6Srgz4fgg X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=cedro.info header.s=google header.b=V4GZOC+w; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of tomek@cedro.info has no SPF policy when checking 2a00:1450:4864:20::441) smtp.mailfrom=tomek@cedro.info X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.71 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[cedro.info:s=google]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[cedro.info]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[cedro.info:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.49)[-0.488]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::441:from]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS(1.50)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:03:33 -0000 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