Hi again,
the point that the current non-test version of the distro
is as old as February 2022, also means that a number of
boot related tickets are still SORT OF relevant, while I
suspect them to already have fixes in updates in TESTING:
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/OS/FDI/-/issues/10
FreeDOS 1.3 is not compatible to VIA C3 CPU somehow.
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/fdisk/-/issues/2
It seems the FreeDOS 1.2 boot sector (the ticket starts
about the FDISK MBR, but later ponders the SYS boot sector)
failed to boot on certain hardware.
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/kernel/-/issues/4
CHS / LBA related issues may keep FreeDOS from booting.
This thread is only 9 months old, but it mentions updates.
In that context, we discussed that the kernel should show
a message when a MBR-partitioned disk is found to contain
zero FAT partitions. This can lead to the kernel trying to
boot from A: with confusing failures if no message hints it.
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/fdisk/-/issues/11
Is about FDISK being unable to support 2 TB partitions,
which already got fixed by Bernd a year ago, which
means our current 1.3 distro still is not fixed.
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/fdisk/-/issues/10
Is similar: Bernd fixed a FDISK alignment/rounding error a
year ago, which means our distro still has the buggy FDISK.
Regards, Eric
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