Try FN and Escape, on some laptops that toggled FN lock which toggled between F keys and their other functions
No idea if that will work on FreeDOS as I don't know what level that happens on. On Sat, 21 Mar 2026, 17:53 Ray Davison via Freedos-user, < [email protected]> wrote: > My question is the stated subject of this thread. I now have the simple > answer, which is yes. That is bit incomplete because I have not yet > made use of *EMM*.EXE. This is a collection of what I call high memory > controllers - there may be a better name. > > If FreeDOS exists for some as a way to keep old hardware running, to > maybe do some newer things, then what I am doing is probably irrelevant. > But if there is someone who wants to run on modern hardware, yes it > does work. > > My intent is to build a modern laptop, that test installs various Linux, > and possibly has one or more Win partitions. Boot must be controlled by > a boot manager that is not influenced by any of those OSs. > > FreeDOS 1.4 is running on the preinstalled, 1Tb HDD. The HDD shipped as > GPT, was stripped, and is now MBR. There is currently a single FAT32, > 20GB partition. > > The file manager is Norton Commander 1993. It works so well it > perfectly aligned to the screen, and established that the function key > primary flip from F1-F12 to the symbols, is not a new computer, > hardwired change, but a new Windows change. - how to get Win to let go? > > The boot manager is Acronis OSS V5. It is functioning in that it grabs > the boot process. It currently has nothing to boot because I cannot > find the install disk, tried to clone it from another box, and it does > not know FreeDOS exists. On other boxes it is booting FreeDOS, two > OS/2, WinXP, and Win7. > > So now, get OSS properly installed, and start adding boot partitions > which will all be extended. > > Any help with EMM would be appreciated. > > TY > Ray > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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