Am Sonntag, dem 29.09.2024 um 15:38 +0200 schrieb Eric Auer via
Freedos-devel:

> 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.
> 

The volume boot loaders would benefit from some overhaul. At least the
FAT12/16 loader does not even try to re-read sectors on error. A few
boot errors occured to me when booting from floppy. A reboot fixed it
in all cases, but having the boot loader trying a little bit harder
would not have hurt.



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