Hi Bernd,
Thinking again about the problem, wouldn't it be an option to always install the CHS loader if the partition to boot from is within the first 1024 cylinders? That would have mitigated the problem on the Book386.
Earlier in this thread, I explicitly suggested to NOT use CHS unless absolutely necessary. For example when you install on one PC and then transplant the disk to another PC, the geometry can change, but LBA will have no problems with that as long as both PC support LBA at all. So LBA is the safer option in almost all cases, the only exception being installing on LBA-enabled PC or VM and then transplanting to computers without LBA support. Thinking about that, is it possible to disable LBA in popular VM? Then we could tell those few users who want to use a VM to prepare a disk for transplantation to another, non-LBA PC, to just do that. Maybe they could even tell the VM to use the same CHS geometry as they have seen when the same disk was installed in the non-LBA PC? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
