DosBox Booting From HDD Image, FreeDOS Image created with qemu-img.

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Published on 2012-01-14T09:40:14Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 16:42 UTC
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I'm having trouble booting a HDD image with DosBox. I've only gotten either read errors, or boot failures.

The HDD image is a verified working FreeDOS installation, created with qemu-img.
The image has been formatted FAT32, and it's working as expected with QEMU. The Image is only 1G in size, and is a flat raw image. I have been able to mount it with Linux, for ease of file transfer. I even was able to boot with DOSEMU, After I mounted the image under Linux.

I would love to somehow just boot from the raw image file, but I would have no problem booting from a mount. I just can't get anything to happen, and I have read the Documents over.

I have verified DosBox is working as expected, with its included DOSlike environment. I would appreciate any help, as I just don't have much of DosBox experience.

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