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WDe and GPT, booting DOS (Users)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 25.10.2022, 13:39

> > > And - does FreeDOS or DR-DOS behave better?
> >
> > when booted from floppy,
> >
> www.drivesnapshot.de/download/kernel.sys
> > should even show existing FAT/FAT32 partitions if they are below 2TB.
> >
> > there is also a realistic chance that it works after being loaded by
> GRUB
>
> How about booting from a USB memory stick (formatted in FAT32, and with a
> BIOS that supports USB booting) instead of floppy?
 this should work identically.

> Assuming the FreeDOS io.sys is present,
 there is no such thing

> I think this should work, but I couldn't get FreeDOS to
> see GPT-partitioned drives via this method, either. FAT32 partitions showed
> up OK.
 you are not clear enough (for me) about what happens, and what not.

the kernel above intends to mount "Microsoft basic data " partitions, but don't touch EFI, Windows RE and other stuff (which would be trivial to change).

thus FAT32/FAT16 partitions would show up, but nothing else.

if your machine behaves differently, how exactly?

is this a virtual machine I could download?

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