> Note that this would mean that you have to find the sources > of ELTORITO.SYS - nu2.nu says it is now free / unmaintained > but sources are not yet public - and add ELTORITO and also > SHSUCDX into the kernel itself. Otherwise you will be able > to boot the kernel, but will not be able to load any other > file from CD/DVD [...]
As I said CD no-emulation booting support requires GRUB4DOS or some other boot loader anyway. So why bother? > PS: Comment on your other binary formats, combined COM-SYS is > evil Well, it turns out to work. If it doesn't on some DOS I can come up with missing MS-DOS compatibility. (It would only affect the driver loading anyway, the executable would still work.) > while combined EXE-SYS can even be UPXed with newer UPX. But you can't combine EXE-SYS-FlatKernel, because stuffing code and the MZ header into the same file location is (I assume) impossible. (And thinking about how to make kernels (!) compatible with UPX probably isn't that important. Better write some new utility that compresses selected parts of the kernel and customize it for each kernel, instead of customizing each kernel for some or another UPX hack.) > However, for a kernel, neither DEVICE nor DOS executable file > format make much sense... You already say that the only thing > done by RxDOS when loaded that way is showing some message ;-) This might change. Renaming the kernel file to RXDOS.COM, the executable part could load some other part of the executable (probably behind the image required to boot the kernel*) containing a program for configuration or status display. This would be quite useful because it could (after aborting if the kernel version found in the file isn't running) contain things very specific to the kernel version. Because the file would be needed to boot the kernel anyway, it would usually be accessible and couldn't be confused with another version (which would abort on another version of the kernel). YES it is spelled "RxDOS" with a small letter "x" ;-) * Currently limited to 64 KiB in size, but could be increased to 128 KiB. Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
