> GPT support? Do people also work on UEFI integration? ;-) GPT support is actually easy; just less then 100 lines in the disk initialisation. In contrast, UEFI would be hard. Really hard. Hpwever not impossible.
> (That would be *mad*, if only for the cool factor. > Except that many DOS apps would fail to work, due to the missing > legacy BIOS services, also not sure how far the CPU real mode would > be feasible under 64bit UEFI etc. as I understand it, 32bit protected mode is possible from 64bit UEFI. so some sort of EMM386 operation would be possible. few DOS systems rely on real mode these days. > Sounds moot.) +1 Tom > Frank >> >> Hi! >> >> While there is a hardware difference in how you >> control more than 2^28 sectors (128 GB) FreeDOS >> is only limited by the BIOS LBA support and at >> the moment by MBR partitioning, which is limited >> to 2 TB disk size. However, people have already >> been working on GPT partitioning support :-) >> >> Eric >> >> >> >> > FreeDOS supports Logical Block Addressing for hard disks up to 128 >> > GB or even 2TB depending on the BIOS used However, some BIOSes might >> > have bugs for disks larger than 32 GB, but you could use drivers >> > like OnTrack or EzDrive to help resolve this issue >> > >> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, 11:18 Michał Dec via Freedos-user, < >> > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> > >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> >> What is the size of LBA supported by FreeDOS? I'm asking because I >> >> have a PC with 7 CF slots and I want to know if I can put FreeDOS >> >> on a 256GB card or do I have to limit that OS to 128GB. >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> >> Michał Dec >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards Tom Ehlert +49-15151898538 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
