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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> qemu -fda freedos.img
>
> It seems to have worked on first glance:
>
> A few lines about Bochs and cirrus-compatible VGA is detected.
>
> Data1 master:  QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-ROM
> Data1 slave:   Unknown device
>
> Booting from Floppy...
> F1 . . . Dos
> Default:  F1
> F1 . . . Dos
> Default:  F?
>
> Now everything is frozen up - none of the keys on my keyboard work.



I think the -fda part might be if you have the image on floppy disk.

> From the CLI in VT1:

qemu freedos.img (in the directory where it resides)
got me to a C:\>

but the keyboard is not working properly.
space bar = n
number keys at top do nothing
qwert produces 7890-
asdfg gives uiop[
Enter key gives t, shift is c. Ctrl is y tab is 6 caps lock m right Ctrl 
Home u backspace  backspace is 5.

I could figure this out eventually and relabel the keys.

BUT:

In X11 the keyboard works properly (as it did with xdosemu in older 
versions where dosemu did not work).

C:  no files
a: Dir
Drive Not Ready

Trying to mount it after this in linux gives lots of I/O errors in sector 
0 and X has crashed (to a blinking cursor) and I had to power off and this 
computer will only boot once a day.

Sindi