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Re: DOS 5.0 with the jrIDE.
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:46 am
by Chuckphd53
Ok I'll hunt around some more...
Re: DOS 5.0 with the jrIDE.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:19 am
by ZiggyTheHamster
FYI: If you patch the boot sector in VirtualBox, the boot sector will no longer boot in VirtualBox.
Also, I found that I couldn't FDISK or FORMAT from DOS 5 in VirtualBox and have the disk be read on the jr. I had to run FDISK and FORMAT on the jr. Then the VirtualBox DOS 5 (running from a boot disk, because again you can't boot off of it anymore once patched) could read the disk as well as the jr.
Re: DOS 5.0 with the jrIDE.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:28 am
by Brutman
ZiggyTheHamster wrote:FYI: If you patch the boot sector in VirtualBox, the boot sector will no longer boot in VirtualBox.
Also, I found that I couldn't FDISK or FORMAT from DOS 5 in VirtualBox and have the disk be read on the jr. I had to run FDISK and FORMAT on the jr. Then the VirtualBox DOS 5 (running from a boot disk, because again you can't boot off of it anymore once patched) could read the disk as well as the jr.
That's kind of expected ... it's a PCjr specific patch.
Make sure that your patched diskettes are clearly marked. They won't boot on real machines either, except for the PCjr.