god, as good as CF cards are for old IDE computers, I hate using them.
There are SO MANY old BIOSes that will just not boot from them unless everything is exactly perfect and what that means varies
Like, right now I have a 1gb drive in there. I partitioned it, set the partition as active, SYS'd it, copied over all the DOS files, and rebooted.
It won't boot. it just hangs at the POST
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
npub1g8…r7wul
2026-05-03 20:51:49 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…lf8r
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