Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 20:28:21 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
> >Actually (major speculation mode) it occurs to me that as w98 only uses the > bios at initialisation, that is might be quite happy once things have booted. > Anyone got a big disk to experiment? > > You don't actually need the BIOS overlay for Win98 and above (until you need > to boot into DOS mode for recovery) ... in fact, Win98 does bypass the BIOS > once it boots which leads to interesting things like Win98 detecting drives > that exist but that you've told in the BIOS don't exist ... I agree. After I inadvertently wiped out EZBIOS by booting straight from a W98 boot floppy, this happened to my L100 w/20GB Travelstar. Windows and Partition Magic could see the partitions (even the hidden one) out to the end of the drive, with EZBIOS completely disabled. DOS saw only C. Feeling the panic rise, I didn't stop to dispassionately study the now-crippled state of my Lib, so have no valuable insights... Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
