24 Oct
2002
24 Oct
'02
12:56 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Sulmicki" adam@cfar.umd.edu
Either way. For now, can anyone recommend any "bios tester". something other than dos (windows), and linux? The only other thing I can think of right now is freebsd.
Another OS you could try is BeOS. BeOS is interesting in that it has its own loader (sort of like LILO). And if the disk is already spun up, BeOS boots up and is ready to use in about 5 seconds.
Does NT supply its own loader? NT is based on a different code stream than Windows 98, so it may exercise different parts of the BIOS.
Oh, and there's OS2. And Minix. A look at the file system types listed in the linux fdisk utility may give some clues to other OSs that run on PCs.
Cheers, - Jan