First post, by rishooty
Hey guys! Thanks for your help with this build in the past.
I've finally began the process of installing windows. However, even accounting for hard ram and HDD limits, I cannot get anything to boot in this except freedos and freedos variants (super fdisk) from a floppy. On one rare occurrence, the windows 95 rtm boot disk worked too, but I could never get it working again.
It seems to also refuse to boot anything from IDE, be it my disc drive or a windows I managed to partially install with freedos. On the 2nd reboot once it's finished copying windows files, it simply refuses to boot the hard drive. For the disc drive, I tried booting it with plop boot manager and it claims I have no media in the drive
I checked all cables, I've tried fat16,fat32, new old stock floppies, win95, win98se, etc. I've also replaced the bios battery.
But anything freedos based it will boot without a second thought.
Note that I am using an ide2cf card properly formatted with super fdisk. However this was largely the case with my regular pata drive as well.