18 May
2007
18 May
'07
6:41 p.m.
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote:
Hello ceri
/Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine /
I know. But you're setting the XO up to boot into Windows (XP, I believe?), aren't you? I wouldn''t like to speculate upon why you might be doing this . . . ( !! ) -- but if you're going to the trouble of putting Windows into the mix, why not add MSDOS while you're at it ?
Cheers and love,
Martin
*/Ceri Coburn ceri.coburn@googlemail.com/* wrote:
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: > Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all > > Stefan wrote : > > /Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be > easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!? > > Stefan/ > > That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for > MSDOS (not Windows) > which would be a truly major task to rewrite and recompile to run under > Linux --- as SJ has alreeady pointed out to me. > > A presentation of this program can be found on my own Web site > > www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk > > -- and I do urge everybody to take a look at it. If I cannot > persuade you all to allow the XO to boot into MSDOS, my current > alternative is to load both MSDOS itself, and a complete library of > Illumination e-books, onto a USB flash drive --- there should be room > for around a thousand or so such books on a 1 gig flashstick as well as > MSDOS -- and arrange for the flashstick itself to be bootable. > > But this is rather an awkward way round of doing things; I'd much rather > the XO could be dual-booted into both Linux and MSDOS. And since you're > already contemplating using Windows an an alternative OS, ( ! ) this > shouldn't really present too much of a problem, should it? > > Cheers and luv to all, > > Martin > > / > / > > Correct me if I'm wrong here guys, but LinuxBIOS as it currently stands does not setup the old BIOS interrupts that DOS uses, which means booting DOS from LinuxBIOS would be a big change Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine Ceri -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
ADLO is an option for booting DOS as this is how Windows 2000 is booted using LB, but it depends if all the interrupts that DOS uses are implemented within ADLO.
Ceri