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Is the DOS boot disk supposed to crash?

April 26, 2017boot crash disk dos

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Is the DOS boot disk supposed to crash?

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Not usually. Starting with version 4.0 of Unattended, we switched from MS-DOS to FreeDOS. Apart from general principles (we like free software), this avoids potential legal issues. But FreeDOS is still under development, and it occasionally has difficulty with some hardware. The UMB provider in particular can be somewhat touchy. Try editing config.sys to comment out the loading of EMM386.EXE, or to load UMBPCI.SYS instead. Commenting out both is the most reliable path, but it may leave insufficient conventional memory for the Windows installer to run.