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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 29.01.2024, 07:02

>
> Not much choice here. It does have an external 8-bit ISA extension board,
> but I don't have any floppy controllers to plug in it. And I don't know if
> it can boot from it, even if I had one.
According to post from VCF this should be possible:

> For general info about the gotek I recommend the FlashFloppy wiki since
> you'd be flashing that anyway as first thing. Then you just need a ISA
> floppy controller like one of those common super I/IO cards and use that
> with the gotek. Since there is XT-IDE on the Book8088 you need to press
> A to boot into floppy when that menu appears on top of the screen
This came from this very interesting topic on Book8088 I'm currently reading: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/book-8088-discovery-and-modification-thread.1245155/

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