Research suggests that ACPI breaks ISA floppy in Windows XP... I wonder if ACPI
is breaking Freedos 1.3 as well?
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
v02.58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc.
AMIBIOS
Version : 08.00.12
Build Date: 05/26/07
ID: J8472006
Under Advanced -> Floppy Configuration
I'm running Freedos 1.3 RC2 installed from the live CD base system with sources.
C:>format a:
Insert new diskette for drive A:
Press ENTER when the right disk is in drive...
# Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted
Using drive default: 1440k (Cyl=80 Head=2 Sec=18)
Cannot find existing