I have a laptop that will not allow anything but UEFI and I must run FreeDOS… (or one of many other OSes that wont boot via UEFI)
Is there a UEFI Bios shim? UEFI thinks it is an OS, but It loads the BIOS boot block and runs it?
Is that even possible?
You could always run it on top of 86box. There are YouTube tutorials on setting it up for various hardware levels.
Actually, I do have a quite usable FreeDOS running in DOSBox on my Linux machine, but it’s not quite the same as running DOS / FreeDOS on the metal. Getting floppies to work as seamlessly as they do on a machine meant for DOS for example.