Is it possible to have the FreeDOS kernel start with driveletter assignment from specific interfaces, or are we stuck with what BIOS offers us?
When booting from USB, I've got multiple options: 1) syslinux + memdisk + floppy image 2) syslinux + memdisk + ISO file 3) syslinux + chain.c32 + kernel 4) syslinux + bootsector + kernel What happens is that BIOS presents a USB flash disk as 1st harddisk instead of IDE/SATA harddisk, with consequences of FDISK and driveletter assignments. Situations 3 and 4 as described above can't be helped, BIOS presents USB flash drive as 1st harddisk, FreeDOS kernel recognises it as C: and you happily boot from C: (only very small capacity USB drives used to boot as A:) Situations 1 and 2 however make you end up with booting from a virtual diskette (A:). However BIOS still presents the USB disk as first harddisk, and thus FreeDOS lists it as C:. My question thus is: can driveletter assignment be tweaked to start with primary partitions on SATA/IDE drives, or are we stuck with what BIOS presents us without ability to swap/shift drives? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
