Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:48:15 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Cc: aagero@aage.priv.no, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doscmd fails to boot Message-ID: <199703020518.PAA19646@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3318A49D.F7D@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from Pedro Giffuni at "Mar 1, 97 01:50:21 pm"
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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 [[
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