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   * [[https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/edrdos/rev/feda14976c32#l1.233|There is a bug in which]] the BDOS loader may have calculated an off-by-one amount of sectors to read, but this is unlikely to cause any problems
   * The BDOS loader did not support 256 sectors/cluster, which iniload and [[https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/commit/2efe4ab9f4a645eb3b44a178c99eb03c4cfa6ead|the new revisions of the FreeDOS boot sector loaders]] do support
+===== Use =====
+Any one of the four kernel files suffices to load the kernel. FreeDOS SYS or EDR-DOS SYS may both be used to install the boot sector loader, using their /K switch to set the appropriate filename for the kernel. (EDR-DOS SYS is so old it does not contain loaders that support 256 sectors per cluster.) Other loaders that support either EDR-DOS or FreeDOS are usable as well.
+When using the ''edrdos.com'' or ''edrpack.com'' file (iniload), lDOS's instsect may also be used, in which case the /F= switch is used to set the filename. A build of instsect (with the lDOS protocol loaders) is included in lDebug builds. Renaming either of the .COM (iniload) files to ''io.sys'' or ''ibmbio.com'' also allows to load them using boot loaders for MS-DOS v6/v7 or PC-DOS v6/v7.
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