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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by mceric, Germany, 29.01.2024, 02:01

> Well, I tired multiple versions of 16-bit FreeDOS kernels on
> Book8088
> 2.0, but they all get stuck at InitDisk function.

An interesting and actually occuring reason for FreeDOS getting stuck at initdisk is that when you are using a kernel without FAT32 support (8086-compatible kernels may be compiled without that by default!) on a disk which only has FAT32 partitions.

In that case, the kernel will fail to find a suitable partition and will proceed to attempt to load config sys from A: instead, which can fail without showing an error message. So it will look exactly as if initdisk got stuck.

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