GPT support? Do people also work on UEFI integration? ;-) (That would be *mad*, if only for the cool factor. Except that many DOS apps would fail to work, due to the missing legacy BIOS services, also not sure how far the CPU real mode would be feasible under 64bit UEFI etc. Sounds moot.)
Frank > > Hi! > > While there is a hardware difference in how you > control more than 2^28 sectors (128 GB) FreeDOS > is only limited by the BIOS LBA support and at > the moment by MBR partitioning, which is limited > to 2 TB disk size. However, people have already > been working on GPT partitioning support :-) > > Eric > > > > > FreeDOS supports Logical Block Addressing for hard disks up to 128 > > GB or even 2TB depending on the BIOS used However, some BIOSes might > > have bugs for disks larger than 32 GB, but you could use drivers > > like OnTrack or EzDrive to help resolve this issue > > > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, 11:18 Michał Dec via Freedos-user, < > > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> What is the size of LBA supported by FreeDOS? I'm asking because I > >> have a PC with 7 CF slots and I want to know if I can put FreeDOS > >> on a 256GB card or do I have to limit that OS to 128GB. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> Michał Dec > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
