From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 4:23:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.208.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4556537B405 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 04:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost) by Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fA7CNKG13673; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:23:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mrspock@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:23:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Eduardo Viruena Silva" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: clefevre@citeweb.net Subject: bochs does not load HIMEM.SYS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I have a computer running FreeBSD 4.4, with 256Mb RAM. I installed bochs-1.2,1.tgz package. I created a image disk and loaded MSDOS 6.22. No problem with the installation process. I get a MS-DOS window and everything start working but HIMEM.SYS. It reports: ================= ERROR: Unable to control A20 line. XMS Driver not installed. ================= nevertheless, when I run mem.exe, it reports: ================= Memory Type Total = Used + Free ---------------- ------- ------- ------- Conventional 639K 84K 555K Upper 0K 0K 0K Reserved 0K 0K 0K Extended (XMS) 31,744K 31,744K 0K ---------------- ------- ------- ------- Total memory 32,383K 31,828K 555K Total under 1 MB 639K 84K 555K Largest executable program size 554K (567,776 bytes) Largest free upper memory block 0K (0 bytes) ========================== as if my extended memory really exists. Now, it also happends with Windows 95 and 98 booting discs. I tried in another computer, it didn't work either [the difference between them is the X11 version, one of them has the 4.0.2 version]. I also tried compiling the port. It did not work either, the problem is the same. Finally I tried in a linux system and it works fine. Another problem: there are problems if I install Turbo C++ 3.0, the computer --even thought it is not frozen-- does not respond to the keyboard. And I say it is a keyboard problem because when I make turbo C compile a program with the /m option [make] or /b option [build], it compiles and links. Could you please help me? - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message