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Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if I'm wrong). Using FreeDOS kernel v.2041 (386f32), Syslinux v.6.03-pre11 and either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions, executing: syslinux.com -m -i c: or: syslinux.com -f -m -i

...DOS > variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if > I'm wrong). This sounds like either a bug in FreeDOS or another undesirable negative interaction. I vaguely recall FreeDOS having some sort of HDD-acceleration (caching/prefetching). A quick Google returns "lbacache" and "uide.sys". If so, a test should be run without either running. > Using FreeDOS kernel v.2041 (386f32), Syslinux v.6.03-pre11 and > either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions, executing: > syslinux.com -m -i c: > > or: > syslinux.com -f -m -i c: > > will not w...

...here are several (open source) DOS programs that are capable of successfully writing to the MBR under FreeDOS, I would tend to think that there is some interaction issue. > I vaguely recall FreeDOS having some sort of HDD-acceleration > (caching/prefetching). A quick Google returns "lbacache" and > "uide.sys". If so, a test should be run without either running. > I ran syslinux.com under a "clean" FreeDOS environment. Even config.sys and autoexec.bat (or their FreeDOS equivalents) are empty, so other than the kernel and the shell, there is nothing...