Hello Adam
We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working reliably and you should be 95% there.
Yes, this is at least partly confirmed since I am currently running all my existing Illumination books on a Windows 98 machine, which has no trouble dropping into DOS in order actually to run (that is, to read) all the books without error.
Each book is launched by clicking a Windows batch file, which performs any inits needed, opens a (black) DOS window (as Run does) and then launches the Illumination reader itself in DOS. Closing the book drops back out of DOS and into the Windows desktop again, as one would hope.
On a Windows 98 machine, then (I'll check what CPU) the whole procedure is easy and bug-free.
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Question, then : will LinuxBIOS allow booting from (specifically) a RAM device in one of the USB ports? If so, I can almost certainly make a bootable RAM-stick, one vague area being that Illumination runs in VGA graphics mode?
Cheers, Martin
Adam Sulmicki adam@cfar.umd.edu wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007, Ceri Coburn wrote:
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.
We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working reliably and you should be 95% there.