Hi Peter, >>> May I suggest: the ability to boot on an extended partition. Is there a >>> way to do this that I missed? I always get missing KERNEL.SYS if I boot >>> FreeDOS from Lilo or Grub and it's not on one of the four primary >>> partitions. >> >> Odds are you're running into a bug in Grub, at least, when chainloading >> operating systems from logical partitions. LILO might have the same bug. >> >> The Fedora fork of Grub just fixed it two weeks ago. >>
> I got an off-list reply asking what they did. > The answer is that for the DS:SI information in memory (which is usually > just a copy of the partition table entry) to make any sense, it has to > be adjusted to be zero-based rather than based on the logical partition. > If it doesn't, it's just garbage, since the base isn't available to > the passed OS. problem is, that the freedos stuff (both MBR and boot sector) don't know about 'DS:SI information in memory', and ignore it what is this supposed to be (pointer into the booted partition entry)? any links ? Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
