Wouldn't that effort be better spent on actually adding AHCI support to UDVD2?
One cool thing about AHCI is that it has considerably lower emulation overhead than legacy IDE. So that would be an additional argument in favor of adding full native AHCI support to FreeDOS. On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:56 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > If I had: '-M q35' to qemu to enable a SATA only machine, when booting in > live mode 1.3-rc3: > UDVD2: Nothing to use; UDVD2 not loaded. > I hope UDVD return an error code we could use to give a more meaninful > message like: > Your computer is running in SATA only mode, so I cannot access the CD-ROM. > You might try to see if your BIOS support Legacy IDE mode. > My newer BIOS does not have this compatibility option anymore, sadly. > I see: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/266/?limit=25 (about > this)... oh we do have bugs list, I should maybe use it more! > > If I boot with a normal PC to do the fdisk, then reboot in SATA only mode > and select install, installation will go until: > "Unable to locate the installation packages. > A reboot may help." > Maybe where "A reboot may help" should be replaced by: "Reboot, and try to > enable Legacy IDE mode in your BIOS before trying again." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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