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The best way to boot DOS ???
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(10-01-2020, 06:58 PM)markm Wrote: I use hdsentinel dos a lot to check hard drives on machines. I also have an extra partition created on my thumb drive, partly for situations like this. I run hdsentinel dos in memdisk mode with ventoy, at "a:\" dos prompt I type "c:\" to get to my spare partition with .exe files on it and run from there.

All of the above works for me, but I cannot really execute or copy files. The USB drive does have an activity LED and the access pattern is the very same for hours, but there's no progress (or error messages, for that matter). Changing from FAT16 to FAT32 does not have any effect, partition space is created via
Code:
./Ventoy2Disk.sh -r 128 -i /dev/sdb
and then formatted accordingly.
Anything obvious that I might be doing wrong?


:edit:
I've now formatted another USB drive with unetbootin and FreeDOS, that works for me (flashing Intel NICs with the 25.0 software release; requires basic boot options without HIMEM or anything to work properly), but obviously that isn't a multiboot solution. I'd still appreciate some trick that makes this viable with Ventoy!
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The best way to boot DOS ??? - by mat-industries - 09-17-2020, 06:31 PM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by Steve2926 - 09-19-2020, 07:50 AM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by GCMartin - 09-19-2020, 03:34 PM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by dgasaway - 09-22-2020, 02:38 AM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by markm - 10-01-2020, 06:58 PM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by bzzz - 12-23-2022, 02:01 AM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by Midas - 10-02-2020, 12:16 PM
RE: The best way to boot DOS ??? - by Steve2926 - 12-24-2022, 07:14 AM

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