You may have to take a page from the Win98 boot floppy, if possible. If you've
ever watched it load, it cycles through several drivers trying to find the
CD-ROM...especially in the SCSI territory.
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:35:38 +1000
> From: adam-nos...@servfire.net
> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] "Rebooting" without restarting the PC
>
> I'm not sure why devload causes problems, shouldn't be running out of
> memory (loading himem.exe and umbpci.sys), yeah, it's the MS Protocol
> Manager (protman.dos), a slightly modified dis_pkt.dos from the original
> boot disk, as well as whatever NDIS driver the card should use. All
> loaded with classic DEVICE(HIGH) lines in config.sys and Ghost picks it
> up. Do the same with DEVLOAD and it just doesn't detect them (can't
> pick network options, only gives local).
>
> I'll play around with it a bit more, as well as looking at the NWDSK to
> see how they're doing it. And yeah, I don't think METAKERN will do what
> I want, but looks to be an interesting program in itself, so I'll keep
> it in mind.
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric Auer wrote:
> > Hi, you should have a look at how NWDSK does the
> > network card detection and driver loading :-).
> >
> > One FreeDOS way to do it would be to use PCISLEEP
> > to list all PCI devices of the "network" category
> > and use the new SET /E (or so) feature to put the
> > first output line of PCISLEEP into an environment
> > variable. Then you would indeed use DEVLOAD... You
> > did not say why devload caused problems. Do things
> > work with classic DEVICE lines in config sys or
> > does GHOST load things in a completely other way?
> >
> > To boot a kernel of your choice, you can have a
> > look at METAKERN. You could modify it to make the
> > choice depending on some PCI scan results. But I
> > doubt that this is what you want. You always want
> > the same kernel, just different config sys lines.
> > As said, it should even be possible to figure out
> > how to do all loading later with DEVLOAD. Do make
> > sure that enough memory is free - it might be the
> > case that using BASH for your "which driver?"
> > decision takes too much memory, so DEVLOAD cannot
> > give the driver enough memory to load properly.
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
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