512-byte boot sectors. I wonder how long that's going to last given that
4k-sector drives are popping up more and more.
>________________________________
> From: Rugxulo <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight requested on drive letter assignation in
>DOS
>
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Pete Batard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, any insight on drive assignation in DOS, or ideas on how to
>> force a specific drive letter for the FreeDOS bootable partition would
>> be welcome.
>
>Caveat: This is all way way WAY over my head. So I'm not much help, but ...
>
>1). SYS.COM says this:
>
>FreeDOS System Installer v3.6e, Feb 7 2012
>Usage: SYS [source] drive: [bootsect] [{option}]
> source = A:,B:,C:\DOS\,etc., or current directory if not given
> drive = A,B,etc.
> bootsect = name of 512-byte boot sector file image for drive:
> to write to *instead* of real boot sector
> {option} is one or more of the following:
>...
> /B btdrv : hex BIOS # of boot drive set in bs, 0=A:, 80=1st hd,...
>
>2). I'm not sure this was ever tested with FreeDOS proper, only other
>DOSes, as it used "lots of undocumented, low-level stuff", but maybe
>this will also be of interest??
>
>http://www.bttr-software.de/products/drvexch/
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