Re: [ros-dev] FreeLdr: FsOpenVolume

"Filip Navara" <xnavara(a)volny.cz> 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