hi! goody, thnx for clearing the confusion -dasu- On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 19:28, USM Bish wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:04:35AM -0700, Satsco wrote: > > > > i have used QBASIC on a dual boot machine with LILO. > > gave me no problems at all. > > > > cant say about gwbasic. > > > > try using QBASIC on the same machine with LILO on the > > mbr and tell me what happens. > > > > or send me a copy of gwbasic zippped up and i will try > > it on my machine... i have RH and Win-Me dual boot > > with LILO on mbr. > > > > --- Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > i have installed mandrake linux in my school lab, > > > and it dual boots with win 98. now, after the > > > installation, the teachers noticed that when they > > > tried to run gwbasic for the junior classes, the > > > thing refused to run, with a error : "You cannot > > > shell to BASIC" i removed lilo (lilo -u) and it > > > is working correctly now what's the problem ?? > > There is no problem with MDK or LILO. Obviously, you > are going through Win boot. If you do gwbasic under > dosemu, then there should be no problems, since the > boot record is diverted. gwbasic is an old software > from the floppy disk era. It looks at the boot record > for disk descriptor bytes, and executes the code at > MBR of return to DOS shell. Under LILO this code will > not be found. IIRC basica has this problem corrected. > > > > i face no problem as i am using loadlin, but what > > > does lilo have to do with gwbasic?? > > Under Loadlin, the MBR has valid M$ boot record with > JMP instruction to the bootable code. > > Bish > > --
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