OK, I've spent a couple hours trying to reproduce this and I can't. I can succesfully boot the new freedos image using idrac virtual media, and burning it to a usb via rufus, on r620s, r320s, and r720s (and my old laptop just to double check). Can you delete any files and zips you have, redownload the zip package, and confirm your download isn't getting corrupted by checking the md5 hash of your download versus what's displayed on the site? Then try booting it via idrac virtual media, during server boot, press f11 for boot menu, choose bios boot menu, then choose "virtual cd" (NOT virtual floppy)
Thanks for retrying this on various machines Fohdeesha. I really appreciate it.
I checked the MD5 hash of the zip file and it does match what is on the site. I also got the MD5 hash of the unzipped files as well.
$ md5sum perc-crossflash-v2.3.zip
d0f15f46112762f16fe32832cd9a7492 perc-crossflash-v2.3.zip
$ md5sum deesh-FreeDOS-v2.2.iso deesh-Linux-v2.3.iso v2.3.txt
c389a233c40d7e73a036f069fd0e55f8 deesh-FreeDOS-v2.2.iso
2b4a5628244d3eda28d71a634a30d470 deesh-Linux-v2.3.iso
357199d0d6fd7e31c7211ec69262760f v2.3.txt
The way you recommend of trying to boot the customized version of free dos is exactly the same steps that I've been trying.
What I'll try next is to download the zip file on a windows computer and try unzipping it and loading it up thru idract virtual media. Maybe my version of Archive Manager on Ubuntu 2022 is corrupting the unzipped files somehow.
Edit 1:
Tried on a windows laptop and here are the md5 hashes. It's weird that the zip file has a different md5 hash but the unzipped files have the same md5 hash files.
C:\Users\dusti\Downloads>certutil -hashfile perc-crossflash-v2.3.zip
SHA1 hash of perc-crossflash-v2.3.zip:
bd2a18689c2568d66db0ccb61cc6429d3bed28c4
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
C:\Users\dusti\Downloads>certutil -hashfile deesh-FreeDOS-v2.2.iso MD5
MD5 hash of deesh-FreeDOS-v2.2.iso:
c389a233c40d7e73a036f069fd0e55f8
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
C:\Users\dusti\Downloads>certutil -hashfile deesh-Linux-v2.3.iso MD5
MD5 hash of deesh-Linux-v2.3.iso:
2b4a5628244d3eda28d71a634a30d470
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.
Edit 2:
Tried downloading the zip file with my macbook pro and I'm getting the same md5 hash values.
md5 perc-crossflash-v2.3.zip
MD5 (perc-crossflash-v2.3.zip) = d0f15f46112762f16fe32832cd9a7492
md5 deesh-FreeDOS-v2.2.iso deesh-Linux-v2.3.iso v2.3.txt
MD5 (deesh-FreeDOS-v2.2.iso) = c389a233c40d7e73a036f069fd0e55f8
MD5 (deesh-Linux-v2.3.iso) = 2b4a5628244d3eda28d71a634a30d470
MD5 (v2.3.txt) = 357199d0d6fd7e31c7211ec69262760f
I just tried to perform the idrac virtual media loading steps with my macbook and ran into the same problem where it just hangs after mentioning the suspect partitions. If it helps my idrac is running on the dell r720xd is 2.65.65.65 and I'm using the HTML5 viewer to load the virtual media.