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WDe and GPT, booting DOS (Users)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 24.10.2022, 17:31

> Hello,
>
> recently I added support for GPT to WDe ( no binary available yet ).
>
> I tried to boot MS-DOS 7.1 from a GPT-partitioned disk ( via GRUB ), but
> that failed. Elaborating the problem one can "see" that the boot sector(s)
> of the FAT32 partition run correctly, IO.SYS is found and some sectors of
> it are loaded at the correct address, but after IO.SYS has taken over, the
> boot process stops.
>
> Is there a known solution to this little problem?



boot from floppy.

at least FreeDOS will tolerate a GPT disk even if it can't detect a FAT partition on this disk (yet).

 

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