I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a
286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but
will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't
investigated into this).
The bad point is that I wasn't able to investigate into this,
Mark Bailey schreef:
Good morning:
In all of my flailing around about MBR's, I do believe that I have
found a kernel bug. The failure of the FreeDOS kernel to initialize
with the incorrect MBR looks like a bug. It is impossible to use
FDISK to correct the MBR when the kernel won't
My FreeDOS boot CD halts with an error with the development kernel.
It is inconsistent booting with the Beta9SR1 CD. This
needs a bit more research to see why it booted the first time.
It may have been the difference between a restart and a cold boot.
That, I believe, is a bug in both of those
