> Am 17.01.2025 um 17:27 schrieb Paul Dufresne <dufres...@zoho.com>: > > >> Maybe the 1.3 installer does not make a partition active and the BIOS is >> smart enough to detect this? Can you FDISK it to see if there is an active >> partition? > It was active. > >> Or better yet, can you please test the following: After partition is created >> under the 1.4-RC1 installer, issue an >> >> FDISK 1 /deactivate >> >> on command line and see if the CD-ROM boot occurs? > Now when booting it says "no active partition"... > I was expecting it would boot CDROM like 1.3 do. >
This is what I consider to be the expected behaviour with no active partition set. Then there must still be something the FreeDOS 1.3 installer does different than the FreeDOS 1.4 RC1 installer? I will have to take a look at the FreeDOS 1.3 installer and compare. The loader shipped with FreeDOS 1.3 (and FDISK 1.3.4) should also display the message: https://github.com/FDOS/fdisk/blob/v1.3.4/SOURCE/FDISK/BOOTNORM.ASM#L49-L61 But maybe a different MBR code is installed other than the standard one? Bernd _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
