[Freedos-devel] MBR boot failure + diagnosis on a PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 machine

2024-04-30 Thread Ben Russell via Freedos-devel
This highlights a specific case where the "read error while reading drive" message will pop up on boot. I have an HP Brio 8314 which has this problem. If you don't have this exact machine, 86Box has a machine with the same problem: Slot 1, "[i440LX] Micronics Spitfire". It is not a hardware

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-04-30 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: I have no idea why I would recompile old MS stuff, but as a hobby it's ok. 6.21 would be much more useful and no doubt a lot more people would want to do what I'm trying to do for 4.01 with a 6.21 source drop. (Even 5.0 would be more

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-04-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel, am Dienstag, 30. April 2024 um 17:07 schrieben Sie: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: >> Sadly not. Only the binaries are released under MIT through the repository. >> >>> Does that mean we finally have a genuinely open

[Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together coming up (Sunday)

2024-04-30 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
Hi everyone! I wanted to remind everyone of the upcoming FreeDOS virtual get-together, happening on Sunday, May 5 at 11am US/Central (use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time). I'll share the link when the meeting starts. As before, we'll use Google Meet. We alternate topics

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-04-30 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Sadly not. Only the binaries are released under MIT through the repository. Does that mean we finally have a genuinely open sourced OMF linker? -hpa It's my opinion that including them was more of a fortuitous accident than

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-04-30 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Sadly not. Only the binaries are released under MIT through the repository. > Does that mean we finally have a genuinely open sourced OMF linker? > > -hpa > ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net