The LBA routine of the FAT16 loader seems to work for Jim. It is taking a more "conservative" approach compared to the one in the FAT32 loader, in that it reserves some space for the DAP in its data area instead of reserving it on the stack.
I agree that including a choice in the installer would be overkill, but the loader should nevertheless be altered to support both LBA and non-LBA, without multi-sector reads, as there is a higher chance of something going wrong. Combining the LBA/non-LBA loaders would make it easier to transfer the disk images. Not very user friendly to make the user have to change the VBR code, as experienced by Jim. > Am 02.06.2024 um 19:16 schrieb Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > > Hi! > >>> It would be possible to add an additional screen to the installer >>> (probably only advanced mode) to use the /FORCE:CHS option. > >> That would be a good option to have, but I'd like to fix sys bootcode so >> lba code works and maybe make a multi sector fat32 version that supports >> both chs & lba... > > If you SYS on the same system where you work later, SYS will > detect whether or not there is FAT32 support. I think it would > be overkill to have a multi-sector boot loader which supports > all options on FAT32. Today, LBA support is widespread enough > and our FAT12 / FAT16 boot sector already supports CHS and LBA > in one combined (also somewhat over-engineered) boot sector :-) > > Regards, Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
