Hi! The "bug" (feature request) here is that the user wants to be able to boot from FAT32 drives on 8086 PC with LBA. As far as I know, people do not usually have LBA BIOS on 8086, so priority can be very low. FAT32 on CHS makes more sense on 8086, as you can connect harddisks > 2 GB to 8086 :-)
As a workaround, one can boot from FAT16 on 8086 and still use FAT32 on other partitions there. Regards, Eric
On 16-bit systems, FAT32 may not make sense. Even larger FAT16 systems can pose a performance/latency problem.On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM victoria crenshaw via Freedos-kernel wrote: https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/issues/223 <https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/issues/223> this bug is bothering so much for over a decade!
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