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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 01:02:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   doscmd booting floppy on 4.1.1-STABLE
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103020054200.558-100000@aeon.conundrum.com>

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I'm having some issues getting doscmd going under 4.1.1-STABLE (Nov 4, 2000).

I've started with the example from the man page, using the following .doscmd
file:

assign A: /dev/fd0.1440 1440
assign A: /dev/fd0.720 720
assign hard drive-c 1224 15 17

I have two bootable DOS floppies: an 720K IBM DOS 5.0 install and a 1.44M MS
DOS 6.22 install.  Neither seems to want to boot.  My doscmd session looks
like this:

% doscmd -b
Unknown interrupt 15 function 4101
Unknown interrupt 15 function 8706

at which point doscmd hangs -- I can ^C out of it.

I've tried commenting out the assign lines I don't need, and tried a variety
of fd0 device files to access the floppies.. fd0a, fd0c, rfd0.720, rfd0.1440,
etc. and nothing works.  When I seem to be on the right track, I get the
interrupt errors as above, if I'm off track I simply get short read errors
from the device.

The 'drive-c' file has been touched, but even with that assign commented out I
get the same errors.  I've attempted this as root, and as a user in group
operator (/dev/fd0* are all group operator), and I've even tried turning on
the group write bit on /dev/fd0*.

In short, I've run out of troubleshooting ideas, and am beginning to think
that this is a problem with with 4.1.1-S as of the date I cvsup'd it.

I have done a search through the -emulation archives, and haven't seen
anything related to this.  Is this possibly a known issue, or am I missing
something obvious, or what?

Any help is appreciated.
   Matt Pounsett

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