Also, you can try to start the installer in Windows 3.11 from a custom PIF file that configures the app to start with more than 2MB (the default) XMS/EMS memory. [...] Since you have plenty of memory, you could also edit the _DEFAULT.PIF file and increase the default amount of memory given to all …

I've solved this: FreeDOS must be installed first on C: partition, then XP. Otherwise it won't work

@loblolly986 Unfortunatelly, this doesnt't work. =/ Just a black screen and reboots back to BIOS. But, when I've copied bootsect.dos to XP partition (C:, NTFS), an message appeared saying that "Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS", so I've copied KERNEL.SYS to various places in C: & D: partitions, still …

Hi, I have installed Windows XP on blank HDD in first partition C:, then installed FreeDOS on second partition D: (with FAT32) but haven't updated MBR during installation. XP works fine but I'm unable to boot FreeDOS, so I'm trying run it through NTLDR. Unfortunatelly, whatever I type to boot.ini it …