fdisk can provide more info in this situation I think.  I think it can
actually map (print) all the BIOS drives and their BIOS port number.
Running `fdisk /dump` [0] should do it.

[0] http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/fdisk.htm

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a report of another issue regarding the USB stick installer.
>
> Basically, the user has 2 drives. one MS-DOS and one Other DOS formatted.
>
> The user boots the USB stick and all seems well through the install process.
>
> Reboots, and is faced with MS-DOS again. FreeDOS installed to D:.
>
> After, a little back and forth, it turns out that when he boots the USB stick
> the USB stick is Drive C: and the other DOS drive is D:. The original
> MS-DOS C: drive is nowhere to be found.
>
> So, the installer behaves correctly. But, FreeDOS is not the boot drive.
>
> This appears to be completely BIOS related and I don’t think there is
> anything the installer can do about it.
>
> The solution was to to just boot MS-DOS and switch over to whatever
> drive letter the USB stick now has and run setup.bat. This method was
> not optimal, but worked fine.
>
> Like I said, I don’t think there is anything the installer can do about it.
> But, it is something to be remembered.
>
> Thanks, Jerome
>
>
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