Thank you steve, "what you said". Plus, there *IS* a large community of archeologists, for whom the term "computer game" is nostalgia, NOT a 3-D graphics FPS shoot-em-up. We want to resurrect or recreate old hardware, and we still want to be able to take disks back and forth between old and new hardware, run virtually on new hardware, and be prepared for any compatibility issues we haven't thought of. And, in my case, having forgotten so much of what I "knew" back in the 1980s (and getting confused between mainframe and personal computers). For others, never having been there. Carey
On 10/13/2025 5:03 AM CDT Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk said on Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:18:00 -0400 (EDT)
Why do you ask?
It seems to me that this is only of archaeological interest these days.
It's very much relevant today. If you don't want that UEFI mess, you need to format the boot disk with the old MSDOS partitioning scheme that Carey described almost exactly, so that you can boot to an MBR. Assuming your motherboard allows you to do that.
And yes, I know that some motherboards can recognize the faux MBR on a GPT formatted drive, but that's not always the case.
SteveT
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