Hello, perditionc--- via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024, 6:32 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> > I'm glad you're bringing this conversation back to freedos-devel .. >> > because this is a good place to discuss FreeDOS things. >> >> In related news, the dosemu2 people also find the problem interesting. >> >> Their discussion mentions that FDPP, a port of the FreeDOS kernel, >> >> https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp >> >> fixes plenty of issues listed in our kernel bug lists. So maybe >> somebody feels like backporting those to FreeDOS. However, as far >> as I remember, the diff is huge, nothing easily cherry-picked. >> >> Regards, Eric > > > > FDPP is a great project and has done a wonderful job of helping when porting > fixes to fd kernel.sys. If I had more time I'd love to be able to help there > more as I see it as the future for DOS as more and more computers are UEFI > only. I ordered a book8088 (hopefully) so i can test directly, but coming > from China so at least 2 months before delivery. Based on what I've read it > sounds like the drive is booting using CHS and the disk layout doesn't match > what the kernel thinks it is. That said, that specific spot is where boot > time memory corruption usually is noticed and anything the kernel did up to > then could be the culprit. There has been several fixes to the startup > (boot code and initialization) that may or may not be related. (I had hoped > to publish an updated kernel over Christmas but that didn't happen because I > didn't get all the changes and testing I would like done. I hope to put out > an updated kernel for testing next weekend.)
You don't need a real Book8088 for testing. 86Box "Xi8088" machine with XT-IDE(CHS=1006/16/63) can reproduce this bug. > > Jeremy > Regards, Roy _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
