From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Mar 1 21:19:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA21929 for emulation-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21924 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 21:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA19646; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:48:25 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703020518.PAA19646@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: doscmd fails to boot In-Reply-To: <3318A49D.F7D@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from Pedro Giffuni at "Mar 1, 97 01:50:21 pm" To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:48:15 +1030 (CST) Cc: aagero@aage.priv.no, emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro Giffuni stands accused of saying: > Aage Roebekk wrote: > > > > I'm booting a floppy with MSDOS 6.22 installed. > > > I think I read (in some manpage) that it's a doscmd limitation, but it's > good to know what is missing :=). No, this is not the problem. There is a problem booting some DOS 6-ish _installation_ disks in that the 'keyb.sys' driver expects to be able to talk directly to the keyboard. I have not yet been bothered to write a sufficiently sophisticated keyboard emulation, and my recommendation is to remove it from the config.sys if you feel you want to install DOS like that. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[