My gut says that taking an existing small UEFI Linux distro and then booting into FreeDOS via qemu, dosbox or some other method could be more fruitful. Maybe even reuse Dosbian - https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/ .
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user < [email protected]> wrote: > FWIW - I had zero luck getting it to work, the required settings in > uefi (often still referred to as "bios" for some reason) lacking on > the device I tried. > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM Roger via Freedos-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ... (likely) faster than booting UEFI itself. > > > > Glad seeing a workaround. > > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Did I actually search on the subject before asking? Well, perhaps not > > > enough. Repenting of that great evil, I found the answer to most of > > > my questions here: > > > > https://forums.grc.com/threads/using-csmwrap-to-get-bios-on-uefi-only-systems.2129/ > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM Dan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Very briefly, my question is if this would work with freedos and, if > so, roughly how many seconds would it add to boot time? The project has me > very curious as it purports to do what my humble understanding thought was > impossible. > > > > > > > > https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freedos-user mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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