> On Sep 29, 2024, at 9:38 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > 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
There have been a lot of fixes to many things since 1.3. I’ve submitted numerous bug reports on GitHub for FreeCOM. While some of the of the very bizarre bugs have not been solved, others have. For example, I found (I think) three different bugs regarding extended long command line passing with the shell. Those have been fixed. I think once T2410 comes out and we perform a little more package rearranging, we should really start looking at releasing a FreeDOS 1.4 sometime soon. With all of the updates to important programs, like FORMAT, FDISK, FreeCOM, the KERNEL, etc., a new OS version is overdue. I think that once a new Kernel and FreeCOM version has been released and tested, we should set a date for the next OS release. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
