Sorry for the delay. I've been sick recently (possibly Covid) plus had other stuff to deal with.
On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 20:36, C. Masloch <pus...@ulukai.org> wrote: > > On at 2023-08-02 15:27 +0800, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I assume that your file system is FAT32? Otherwise I don't know how you > could get this message. How large is your file system? > Yes, 240 MB. > Anyway, FreeDOS's SYS utility determines whether to use the 386+ LBA > FAT32 loader or the 8086 CHS FAT32 loader based on whether the current > machine's first HDD (unit 80h) has LBA extensions available or not [3]. > This obviously fails in your case as you don't want to boot from the > same machine as what you're using to install. > > It isn't fully documented in the help page [4], but you can choose which > FAT32 loader is installed using the /FORCE option, setting it either to > /FORCE:LBA or /FORCE:CHS [5]. This will cause the use of "fat32chs" > (from the source file boot32.asm rather than boot32lb.asm) [6]. The CHS > FAT32 loader is also 8086-compatible. > Thanks for that! I'll try that out when I get back to this. > As mentioned by others, doslfn is 386-only. > Ok, I can live without that on the Book 8088. BFN. Paul.
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