On 12/29/2016 8:52 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > >> NO version of Windows will start from FreeDOS, not 3.x nor any 9x... > I know 3.1 did in the past, with provisos, did that regress? Sorry but I am not aware that anyone has successfully been able to do that... > >> 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... > There's PC DOS 7 but that's another story for another day. ;) Indeed. IBM's PC-DOS 7 is a completely different animal. IBM and MS-DOS parted ways after MS/PC-DOS 4.x. IBM never had a v5, skipped straight to 6.1. And IBM was always "a number ahead" ever since (until the last release of IBM DOS, which was PC-DOS 2000) > >>> However, it would be nice if loadlin worked under FreeDOS.; >> Have you tried to contact the maintainer of loadlin about this? > Is there still a maintainer of loadlin? Don't know, haven't had time to check yet. But if not, that might be a reason why it might not work with FreeDOS... ;-) Well, there is (supposed to be) > Hans Lermen got retired, so I took maintainship of loadlin. Here you can find > old revisions, as well as the newer 1.6f which should work with nowadays > kernel > (or else please mail samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org) > > loadlin.hg is a mercurial repository, you can clone it: > > hg clone static-http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/loadlin/loadlin.hg/ The last version mentioned above is from September 2012...
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