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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 04.02.2024, 18:01

> > The biggest problem is that FreeDOS fdisk didn't work on the machine. So
> it
> > wasn't possible to partition the disk on the machine.
>
> I will prepare a fix for FDISK. Theoretically there is command line
> parameter /x to disable LBA. Problem is, that the BIOS gets
> queried for LBA support even if LBA is disabled. And that is a problem if
> INT13,41h is broken.
>
> I will modify FDISK such LBA that support is not even queried if LBA is
> disabled via /x parameter.

A modified FDISK is uploaded to https://nextcloud.iww.rwth-aachen.de/index.php/s/D4sEZfG7LmHeWqy

This hopefully works on the Book8088 if started with parameter /x. At least this works for me under 86Box with Xi8088 machine and XT-IDE. It previously did not.

 

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