The COMMAND.COM file was extracted from the fd11tst3.img image available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1-test3/ Because of issue #19 (see https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/19) KERNEL.SYS is a recompiled version, from the 2011.12.16 svn source, with FORCELBA enabled and with the following patch having been applied: Index: kernel/initdisk.c =================================================================== --- kernel/initdisk.c (revision 1696) +++ kernel/initdisk.c (working copy) @@ -810,10 +810,13 @@ void print_warning_suspect(char *partitionName, UBYTE fs, struct CHS *chs, struct CHS *pEntry_chs) { - printf("WARNING: using suspect partition %s FS %02x:", partitionName, fs); - printCHS(" with calculated values ", chs); - printCHS(" instead of ", pEntry_chs); - printf("\n"); + if (!InitKernelConfig.ForceLBA) + { + printf("WARNING: using suspect partition %s FS %02x:", partitionName, fs); + printCHS(" with calculated values ", chs); + printCHS(" instead of ", pEntry_chs); + printf("\n"); + } memcpy(pEntry_chs, chs, sizeof(struct CHS)); } Recompilation was done using Open Watcom, as described at: http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/12/compiling-freedos-on-windows-using.html