Disk 1 is the Ventoy USB drive, and Disk 2 is the internal NVME disk.


> El 3 jun 2026, a las 5:21, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> escribió:
> 
> Oh....I'd love to see a pic of that.
> 
> If you boot FreeDOS from Ventoy using Legacy+CSM and do a "fdisk
> /status", what does it show?
> 
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM Paco Oviedo via Freedos-user
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> El 2 jun 2026, a las 16:14, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> escribió:
>> 
>> Generally speaking, NVMe storage drives are not accessible via BIOS
>> calls (they need to be communicated with via PCIe or UEFI).  FreeDOS
>> is only able to access storage mediums accessible via BIOS calls.  I'm
>> curious how you got your BIOS to make the NVMe drive visible to
>> FreeDOS in your initial install attempt.
>> 
>> I modified a Dell Optiplex 9020 to boot off NVMe but the drive isn't
>> visible to my FreeDOS USB install drive.  However, Linux will install
>> and boot off the NVMe.
>> 
>> 
>> Nothing special. I just turned on Legacy and CSM in the BIOS Startup menu, 
>> and FreeDOS found the NVMe disk right away.
>> I booted the FreeDOS installer using a Ventoy USB flash drive.
>> 
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