Hi, On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IIRC, BasicLinux and other UMSDOS Linuxes would not boot/load with > EMM386 as they would put the CPU into V86 mode. After such, loadlin, > et. al., could not recapture control of the CPU and reload the GDT.
I can't remember if DOS-Minix worked with XMS-only or not. But certainly it would choke on EMM386. (Actually, it also choked on modern big-RAM machines unless manually corrected.) Then again, that was old Minix 2.0.4, not sure if that was ever continued working in 3.x series. (Similarly, UMSDOS has been dropped since Linux 2.6.x, or so I thought.) Are there any active distros that still come with Loadlin? For those that don't use GRUB2, what do they use? Grub Legacy, presumably. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
