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WDe and GPT, booting DOS (Users)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 24.10.2022, 19:09

> 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?
>
> And - does FreeDOS or DR-DOS behave better?
>
>
>
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> P.S: Please don't ask why I would want to do such things!

No need to ask... the answer is the same as was this...

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware...-it-%2Acould%2A-be-done-4175709646/#post6339673

;-)

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