Re: [Freedos-devel] I want my 10K

2023-05-16 Thread Bret Johnson
>> But mostly, I think it would look really cool to have all Zeros in >> the Conventional Memory Column. > I think this would be an exercise in futility. After all, there are > parts of the kernel, which are the first part of (Free)DOS being > loaded (by the boot code in the MBR) and then are

Re: [Freedos-devel] I want my 10K

2023-05-16 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/15/2023 4:46 PM, jer...@shidel.net wrote: As you can see, the only thing in low memory is part of SYSTEM using nearly 11K. The machine still has 94K free upper memory and 84K of that is still in a single large block. Yes, I know why this is "the way it is" and you don’t need to explain

Re: [Freedos-devel] trying to understand execrh.asm -- calls to EXECRH cause my 286 system to lock up

2023-05-16 Thread C. Masloch
On at 2023-05-09 21:02 -0500, rehsd.i...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks again, Eric, for the previous info. I've done a bit more digging but haven't found the root cause of the issue yet. I have tried forcing LBA (using sys & sys config). I have also added a bit more debugging info on boot. I added

Re: [Freedos-devel] stack setup in BIOS, prior to loading FreeDOS

2023-05-16 Thread C. Masloch
On at 2023-05-13 18:09 -0500, rehsd.i...@gmail.com wrote: I am working to get FreeDOS running on my 286 system. As part of this, I am trying to improve my BIOS code. As I look at the stack setup when the system initializes, I am using the following. ; org 0x xor