Try booting in safe mode and delete/disable the "Plug 'n Play" device in Device Manager. It should let you do this even when you don't complete the install.

Also cputype=pentium should help as well.

I tried "Pentium", but that didn't help.

How do you get into safe mode from Dosbox? I can do it from BIOS on a non-virtual machine ...

Hit F8 when it says "Starting Windows 95..."

Oh, I forgot about THAT way ...

... Didn't work ...

(Love your signature line, BTW ... )

cputype=pentium_slow

I *had* cputype set for 486, but tried Pentium_slow anyway ... no change, still getting the error ...

whole installation had to go without single error, and you need powerful pc

The original processor is an AMD Phenom II X4 925 2800Mhz with all cores activated ... ? I didn't change the processor type in the configuration until I started to have this error ...

Pentium_slow (or pentium depending on the svn you use) is a must, no other possibility. you have to reinstall i guess

Actually, by booting into safe mode and removing all of the possible problem children from Device Manager (in system devices and sound, video and game controllers) I was finally able to boot to the desktop ... where it freezes with a constant hourglass.

I *think* it's one of the devices that's causing the problem, and am pursuing it on that end, and will continue to update this thread as I go.

By the way, the Dosbox console reported that Pentium_slow was an invalid configuration choice, and automatically changed it to auto.

robertmo wrote:

Pentium_slow (or pentium depending on the svn you use) is a must

Also, the "S3" driver provided by Windows 95 will crash too. Suggest switching to VGA and downloading a s3 trio 64v+ driver.

Robertmo: Did you happen to miss that I reported:

"By the way, the Dosbox console reported that Pentium_slow was an invalid configuration choice, and automatically changed it to auto."

The video driver was the culprit. I changed it to Standard SVGA, and it booted up just fine.

Now it's just a matter of tweaking and experimenting (Yay!).

BTW, can anyone suggest a way to access files through a Dosbox Win95 machine? If I burn a CD, 9 times out of 10 it won't read it in Win95 ... grrrrr ... and Win95 doesn't recognize USB (never has) ... and I don't have a floppy on my current machine (motherboard doesn't even have an IDE controller) ... and it won't recognize the NIC on the host machine ...

I suggest you to use Win98 instead of Win95; in my experience you'll get much less troubles, probably due to newer drivers. Win98 bundled video drivers always worked fine.

Set cputype=pentium_slow and cycles=max for the best results. Use these option for installing AND for running windows.

At this moment there's no way to transfer files between host and guest machine with dosbox. I use Winimage to edit disk images.

Not meaning to cross talk or incorrectly start a new thread, but:

You mentioned Winimage, so I downloaded it and tried to load in the image file I'm using for DosBox. First, it doesn't show any files at all, even though it has the complete Win95 OS on it; secondly, if I try to import a file or folder, it keeps telling me that it can't because the "image is full" (while the properties for the image show almost 2GB free).

Have you ever run into that? And do you know if it can be corrected and,if so, how?

(And please see my comment to Robertmo re: "Pentium_slow" ... )

Wait, can't you set cputype=pentium_slow?

Which version of DOSBox are you using at the moment?

Dosbox Megabuild 6 - it was the only way I could find to effectively solve certain inherent problems, especially ones involving booting from an image.

so you're asking support for a custom, 3yrs old build, right?
please try the latest official dosbox build.
Read the enclosed readme file and the wiki/guides available for using images.