On at 2024-06-02 19:16 +0200, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hi!
It would be possible to add an additional screen to the installer
(probably only advanced mode) to use the /FORCE:CHS option.
That would be a good option to have, but I'd like to fix sys bootcode so
lba code works and maybe make a multi sector fat32 version that supports
both chs & lba...
If you SYS on the same system where you work later, SYS will
detect whether or not there is FAT32 support.
I think you meant "LBA support" in this line. And indeed it does, but
this doesn't work as intended if the target system doesn't support LBA
but the installer system does.
I think it would
be overkill to have a multi-sector boot loader which supports
all options on FAT32. Today, LBA support is widespread enough
and our FAT12 / FAT16 boot sector already supports CHS and LBA
in one combined (also somewhat over-engineered) boot sector :-)
I will write more on this in a subsequent mail.
Regards,
ecm
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