DOS ain't dead

VENTOY (Users)

posted by bocke, 07.05.2022, 12:28

> As Ventoy is only UEFI, it seems to not support FreeDOS or any other
> MBR-based 16-bit DOS, such as MS-DOS 7.1, since Ventoy requires an
> EFI-enabled BIOS to run. (It won't run from an CSM-based traditional 16-bit
> BIOS).

Ventoy is not "only UEFI". On the first page on its site it states:

> x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are
> supported in the same way.

I haven't tried it on a legacy BIOS system yet, though.

For booting UEFI OSes on a system with UEFI bios it works great. Booting legacy OSes on an UEFI system didn't work as well for me. Don't rememeber the details as it was the last summer I last played with this.

Complete thread:

• VENTOY - CLINT, 05.05.2022, 16:41
  • VENTOY - Zyzzle, 06.05.2022, 03:16
    • VENTOY - bocke, 07.05.2022, 12:28
      • VENTOY - Zyzzle, 08.05.2022, 02:39
  • VENTOY - RayeR, 18.05.2022, 22:13
    • VENTOY - bocke, 25.05.2022, 21:00
      • VENTOY - Cyberdyne, 28.10.2022, 09:01