Eric Auer wrote:

Hi, I looked at the issue "kernel acts weird if there is no
diskette drive"... In short:

...

Eric

for testing, a very similar patch, please try
http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/kernel.boot.sys





PS: As a bonus possible problem, I noticed that the cvs unstable SYS
FAT1x CHS/LBA FreeDOS boot sector assumes that DL will be the
drive number after int 13 (readdisk) when it passes on the boot
drive number to the kernel (in BL)... However, RBIL tells about
int 13.02 that:


Apparently some BIOSes or intercepting resident software have bugs
that may destroy DX on return or not properly set the Carry flag.

...

Thanks for the above and note about the boot sector.

Jeremy




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