Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

Hi, On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > On 2 january Antony Gordon said: > > Try Loadlin with no memory managers installed. > > Good idea. It worked. > > I was using HIMEMX only, no EMM. > Removing the line in CONFIG.SYS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

IIRC, BasicLinux [0] 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 [1]. [0] http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ [1] http://wiki.osdev.org/GDT_Tutorial On

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

Hi, On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Louis Santillan 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