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... > >> 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... > However, it would be nice if loadlin worked under FreeDOS. Have you tried to contact the maintainer of loadlin about this?
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