Hi, > On Jan 17, 2025, at 11:56 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > ---- Le ven., 17 janv. 2025 11:43:29 -0500 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > a écrit ---- > >> ---- Le ven., 17 janv. 2025 11:40:00 -0500 Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel >> a écrit ---- >> ... >>> >>> But maybe a different MBR code is installed other than the standard one? >>> >>> Bernd >> My hypothesis for now, is that 1.3 MBR boot CDROM if no active partition. >> That would explains much. > I think it would be easier, more secure, to just make sure MBR have not a > valid MBR until after installation is near complete. > That way, BIOS would ignore it, and go on to the next drive. >
Again… The installer does not write an MBR when it partitions the drive automatically. That is done at the time when the system files are transferred. Although the two installers transfer system files at different times of the install process, neither does it before rebooting after partitioning the drive. If a partition is set active or a MBR is written when partitioning is performed, this would be changes in the behavior of FDISK. Nothing in the installer regarding when it writes the MBR or activates partitions has changed in a long time. Probably not since FreeDOS 1.2. :-) Jerome > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
