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posted by roytam, 06.02.2024, 02:43

> > > as listed in
> > > https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios/blob/master/src/floppy1.inc and
> > > https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios/blob/master/src/floppy2.inc ,
> > Xi8088
> > > BIOS handles floppy part of int 13h only.
> >
> > That is not the problem. The problem is that the BIOS in version 0.9.4
> > fails to set DS to its data segment if it encounteres an an unsupported
> > function
> >
> https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios/blob/6da84ae09804002ae29080cd64dc85e58f46ae9f/floppy2.inc#L89
> >
> >
> https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios/blob/6da84ae09804002ae29080cd64dc85e58f46ae9f/floppy2.inc#L94
> >
> > But it writes to it at
> >
> https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios/blob/6da84ae09804002ae29080cd64dc85e58f46ae9f/floppy2.inc#L128
> >
> > In later versions that seems to be handled differently, an the current
> > binary for Xi8088 seems to work under 86box.
>
> This specific bug seems to be fixed in BIOS version 0.9.9 by commit
> https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios/commit/8799088bce5ca1c088631ba065f98794054dbf9a
yeah, with 0.9.9 or newer xi8088 BIOS, it seems to boot fine even if LBA support is not disabled.

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