Re: [Axiom-developer] 20081202.02.tpd.patch (website download.html add Doyen Thumbdrive)

[William Sit]

Tim:

I found out how to get around the MBR problem.
I have to first boot into safe mode with command prompt 
(on my machine, it is F8 while booting). Then in the DOS 
window, run bootinst.bat.  This succeeds in overwriting 
the MBR. 

Then I have to change the BIOS setting (F2 while booting) 
to allow booting from a USB HDD.

And that does it. Axiom runs.

I did find some problem with the hyperdoc trying to run 
examples from 3D graphics. It crashes with a system error. 
I don't have the details since I had to reboot a few times 
to set up internet access. I can connect by wired 
internet, but I have not been able to run wireless yet -- 
That's my problem though.

Great job and many thanks to Alfredo Portes for the 
thumbdrive version.

William




On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:33:04 -0500
 "William Sit" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tim:
>
> I downloaded the zip file, unzip and copy boot and DOYEN 
> directories to the USB drive. Running bootinst.bat 
> results in MBR not written (Access denied). I login-ed on 
> a Windows machine running Vista Home Premium with SP1, as 
> administrator. Permission was denied due to "physical 
> access" to hardware. (Windows Defender is running, as 
> well as some other security software.)
>
> I used two different USB, same result.
>
> Then I opened a DOS window and switched to the DOS 
> directory and run DOYEN.bat, and this was the result:
>
> LOADLIN v1.6c (C) 1994..2002 Hans Lermen <address@hidden>
>
> CPU is in V86-mode (may be WINDOWS, EMM386, QEMM, 386MAX, 
> ...)
> You need pure 386/486 real mode or a VCPI server to boot 
> Linux
> VCPI is supported by most EMS drivers (if EMS is 
> enabled),
> but never under WINDOWS-3.1 or WINDOWS'95.
> (However, real DOS-Mode of WINDOWS'95 can have EMS driver 
> with VCPI)
> If loading via VCPI you also MUST have:
>   1. An interceptable setup-code (see MANUAL.TXT)
>   2. Identical Physical-to-Virtual mapping for the first 
> 640 Kbytes
>
> Your current DOS/CPU configuration is:
>   load buffer size: 0x00000000     , setup buffer size: 
>  0x3E00
>   total memory:     0x00100000
>   CPU is in V86 mode
>   SetupIntercept: NO
>   stat2: cpu_V86, but no VCPI available (check aborted)
>   input params (size 0x0078):
>     ..\vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=..\initrd.gz 
> init=linuxrc load_ramdisk=1
>  prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=6666 vga=769
>   LOADLIN started from DOS-prompt
> WARNING: Not enough free memory (load buffer size)
> E:\boot\dos>
>
> Well, my laptop is a Acer Travelmate 7520G, AMD Turion 
> 64x2 Mobile Technology. 
> Is there a way to run VCPI? I tried running in 
> compatibility mode with Win 98 or NT4.0 (including 
> loadlin.exe) and no luck. From the message above, it 
> sounds like this is using some old DOS drivers (VCPI has 
> been replaced by DPMI and others years ago).
>
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> William
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:39:54 -0600
>  address@hidden wrote:
> > Thanks to Alfredo Portes there is now a USB thumbdrive 
> > bootable version of Axiom available at 
> > <http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html>
> >
> > Download the file and follow the instructions which are 
> > available
> > further down on the page.
> >
> > Tim
>
>
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