Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:21:00 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
At 06:07 PM 9/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >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... Hehe good idea ... last time I mucked around with the partition tables WITHOUT EZ-Bios I ruined the entire partitioning structure. I suspect EZ-Bios does some additional stuff for writes to make sure it all stays nice and regular ... - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
