Jeremy wrote: > I'm thinking of adding a multi-sector boot code for fat32 to support > both LBA and CHS, but possibly keeping the single sector boot code > support as well. It would be a build option along with other > advanced features so as to not bloat basic sys included with kernel > archive. I'd like to see if I can still keep lba logic in 1st sector > so if 2nd sector corrupted could still boot in happy path (lba no > errors). A 3rd sector would not be used hopefully. I will see > about working on this, but not until next week. > > I don't think anything needs to be done with installer. But we > can document potential issues and fixes when moving drives from one > computer to another, ie boot sector may need updating and there may > be other issues if chs used and different geometry expected. >
FYI to anyone who is curious: I'm planning to do a video for the YouTube channel with this device in the next few days. I figure it's good to show FreeDOS running on real hardware, especially a "retrocomputing" laptop like this. After that (probably this weekend) I'll start over and install a "Full" (all applications and games) version of FreeDOS, using the T2406 test release. My goal is to run *every* app and program from the distribution on the Pocket386. I expect everything will be fine, but some apps may be slow (and that might be expected for "developer" apps like compilers or something). I'll report back on freedos-devel with anything odd that comes up. If you want me to test something specific, please reply here and I'll add that to the list of things to do. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
