Mike's PCjr Page

Hello.
I picked up a JRIDE from texelec. I noticed when watching a youtube video there is boot menu from the JRIDE that shows the information about detected hard drive.

My jrIDE doesnt seem to come up with that. The IBM boot screen counts to 640K then it boots dos. No "Press ESC for menu" or anything.
Does the card need to be flashed or should it have come with the bios loaded?

My system
Stock Jr with 128k
IBM Modem
IBM LPT side cart.
White texelec JrIDE "Rev A"

ok this is my mess up.
I am going to post what the problem was in case someone else has the same issue.
I downloaded the flash and opbin file from retrotronics website.
I tried to verify it and it failed.
So I did a reflash and it looked like it worked.
But still no boot menu.

OK so I start looking around the board and see switch #6 is set to OFF Oops.
Now I have boot menu but its not got a bios that doesn't match with what it shipped. Hopefully I am not missing anything with the non-stop bios? The one from retrotronics is v0.11 8-29-2012

I think they are using the BIOS that I wrote. The date on it should be 2012-11-12. You can download it from the link in this page: https://www.brutman.com/jrIDE/jrIDE.html

The earlier BIOS is functionally similar so don't be too concerned about it. But I would go to the newer one just to be where everybody else is.

OK thanks!

I am up and running now
I am using a 2gig cardflash fdisked for 32megs
PCDOS 3.3

I had some problems following the instructions I found here to zero the MBR. I think the main problem is I don't know how to use MS DEBUG.
I found these debug instructions a little more dumbed down to my level and it worked: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/106/Q106419/