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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 29.01.2024, 02:21

> An interesting and actually occuring reason for FreeDOS getting stuck at
> initdisk is that when you are using a kernel without FAT32 support
> (8086-compatible kernels may be compiled without that by default!) on a
> disk which only has FAT32 partitions.

But it ships MS-DOS 6.22 on a 512 MB Compact Flash card, and that OS didn't support FAT32. (Granted, I forget what the smallest possible FAT32 partition size is.)

I guess I'm a masochist (or genius ... or easily amused) for loving the 8086 and DOS. This actually sounds great, but even having a valid MS-DOS license personally (which doesn't excuse them shipping it pre-installed), I think it's dumb to prefer that over FreeDOS.

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