If ASUS is trying to blame FreeDOS for something,why not prove it?I think
they are just ignoring their OWN bios faults.I never had a problem booting
into FreeDOS with my bios (AwardStation BIOS).Yes,a disk may be formatted
wrong,but that doesn't affect BIOS at all.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2015 9:23 PM, "Teddy T." <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Good Evening,
> >
> ...
> > Could someone please confirm if FreeDOS may really cause this kind of
> problem, if it could prevent a BIOS from using several boot options, making
> it unable to switch automatically between them ? And if this behaviour is
> really caused by FreeDOS, are FreeDOS and Asus teams working together to
> propose patches or updates to solve errors like this one ?
> >
> ...
> > Regards.
> >
> > - Teddy T.
> ...
>
> Please see previous replies from others on this list. Unless you have a
> disk, real or virtual in the drive there is no way FreeDOS could directly
> cause the failure. If there is a disk involved, then there could be
> incompatibilities but this is the first report of them I recall seeing.
> Additional information is needed to determine where in the boot process the
> failure occurs and which component is involved, ie way disk
> fdisk/formatted, or maybe boot sector on virtual image, and then is it
> floppy, hd, CD boot code, ...
>
> To answer your second question, no we are not working to fix it. However,
> if it is a problem with FreeDOS and something we can reasonably fix or work
> around, then it may be fixed if we get more information. As they seem to
> know the cause, at minimum a bug report would be nice, preferably with
> details of what point and how FreeDOS is involved in the booting.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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