On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/29/2016 4:00 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >> So no, it's not reasonable to expect FreeDOS to work under a >>> running Win95. It may be possible in theory (if someone >>> fixed the bugs), but nobody has done it (yet, AFAIK). >> I did not say Win95, I said Win98SE, and I did not try to >> run FreeDos under Windows; I tried to start Windows from >> FreeDOS. This said, I did not expect that to work, I just >> noted what did happen. > NO version of Windows will start from FreeDOS, not 3.x nor any 9x...
I know 3.1 did in the past, with provisos, did that regress? >> >>> Dunno, try Gujin (DOS version) instead, it should work >>> (although I likely only tried like once several years ago): >> The point was not how to boot Linux, it was to show another >> difference in behaviour between FreeDOS and MSDOS 7. > There is no MS-DOS 7, despite what people are trying to tell. That "Boot > part" if Windows 9x will identify itself as DOS version 7, but never was > a standalone version of DOS. The last standalone version of MS-DOS was > 6.22 and that is as far as FreeDOS can reasonably take it... There's PC DOS 7 but that's another story for another day. ;) >> However, it would be nice if loadlin worked under FreeDOS. > Have you tried to contact the maintainer of loadlin about this? Is there still a maintainer of loadlin? -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
