Hi! 12-Мар-2004 21:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Lilly) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Arkady V.Belousov":
JL> I tried the only updating the boot sector using FreeDOS' SYS and got; JL> D:\Download\FreeDOS>sys X: BOOTONLY JL> FreeDOS System Installer v2.9, Sep 24 2003 JL> Processing boot sector... JL> Reading old bootsector from drive X: JL> Divide overflow JL> WinXP throws up an error message because I'm trying to directly access JL> hardware, but I'm allowed to ignore & proceed. - v2.9 is outdated (old kernel). - in SYS (also as in my BOOTFIX, which' IO based on code from SYS) is a bug (when calling INT 21/7305, CF is not set nor checked if after interrupt AX=7300, thus under NT/2k/XP processed wrong data), which doesn't allow to say about error reading (old) boot sector. - you can't use SYS (and any other programs, which directly access disks) under NT/2k/XP. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
