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PDOS/386 (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 16.05.2020, 03:18

> Well, I tried to boot it on my primary PC (i7-2600K) without floppy so I

Thanks for your feedback.

> used GRUB4DOS.EXE to load PDOS32.IMA. When I started GRUB4DOS from bare
> MS-DOS 7.1 it imm. rebooted but when I started it from bare FreeDOS it
> booted so I could try it.

That's very strange that you get a different
result in MSDOS vs FreeDOS. PDOS/386 should
not care about how it was booted.

Also I'm not sure how a disk image can be
booted like that. The code is designed to
do BIOS calls to read sectors from a disk.
Are those BIOS calls intercepted?

> I found it supports LFN but near half of my
> partitions (FAT16 and few FAT32) lists total garbage or repeat the listing
> of root dir in endless loop via dir command.

Ok. Some more work still needed then.

> There was nothing much to run
> than few test programs but running win32 con. may be advantege - would it
> be better than HXDOS?

I assume HXDOS is a more mature product at
this point.

I'm not 100% sure what the purpose of
PDOS/386 is. I just thought there should be
a public domain operating system out there,
and I also thought that there should be a
32-bit version of MSDOS. So I just plugged
the gaps. The project has taken 25 years to
reach this point of self-hosting.

BFN. Paul.

Complete thread:

• PDOS/386 - kerravon, 14.05.2020, 21:26 (Announce)
  • PDOS/386 - RayeR, 15.05.2020, 02:25
    • PDOS/386 - kerravon, 15.05.2020, 06:23
      • PDOS/386 - iw2evk, 15.05.2020, 13:34
        • PDOS/386 - kerravon, 15.05.2020, 15:05
      • PDOS/386 - RayeR, 16.05.2020, 01:34
        • PDOS/386 - kerravon, 16.05.2020, 03:18