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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 29.01.2024, 06:04
(edited by bocke on 29.01.2024, 06:40)

>
> 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.
>
> In that case, the kernel will fail to find a suitable partition and will
> proceed to attempt to load config sys from A: instead, which can fail
> without showing an error message. So it will look exactly as if initdisk
> got stuck.
It shouldn't be the case. I tried multiple kernels with or without FAT32 support. Also, I'm not sure what was the original formatting, but I also tried FAT16 with only a system transfered with sys.com. I got the same results.

And the kernel actually recognizes the partition, but doesn't get CHS parameters right as it gets confused somewhere in the process. Than it gets stuck there.

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