Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt [LWN.net]

Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt

Posted Sep 19, 2006 5:20 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: FreeDOS 1.0 born after 12-year gestation (NewsForge)

FreeDOS 1.0 crashes when trying to access a CD-ROM with no disc in it. It looks like "12-year gestation" doesn't protect against simple and nasty bugs. Extensive testing by many users is much better at that. Hopefully the 1.0 release will attract more users who will discover the remaining bugs.

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Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt

Posted Sep 19, 2006 6:34 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

That's how you know it's really DOS! Don't you remember?

Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt

Posted Sep 19, 2006 14:15 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Hitting a fatal bug at the first boot attempt

Posted Sep 19, 2006 14:22 UTC (Tue) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link]

Or it just hanged forever...