Re: [ros-dev] FreeLdr: FsOpenVolume

"Filip Navara" [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since there have been several reports of the ROS CDs failing to boot
> with the "Invalid partition table magic" message I though if the line 85
> in freeldr/fs/fs.c can be the cause. If the CD-ROM drive would get
> assigned the 0x80 BIOS number (can this everr happen?) then we would end
> up reading partition table from it and crash later.
> Any thoughts?

This shouldn't happen because the specifiation says thea the BIOS number of
a bootable CD-ROM drive must be 0x81 and above. I have seen BIOS numbers
like 0xA1 but OTOH there are lots of broken BIOSes out there.

Regards,
Eric