You can't boot W98 in plex86 (yet.....). W95 works fine though......
Hope that this helps you some......
Johnathan Hicks wrote:
> Thanks for the response Kevin. :)
> Ok then... but I see these reports of plex86 booting Windows and yet it
> seems that I can't do it? How long did it take to boot up when this was
> reported?
> --John
>
> Kevin Lawton wrote:
> >
> > Johnathan Hicks wrote:
> > >
> > > This is my second attempt to get a response if it matters... :)
> > >
> > > I recently attempted to get plex86 to boot win98 from a physical drive.
> > > It worked, almost. After getting past the LILO bootloader, I tried to do
> > > some things in MSDOS 7. I found that it ran incredibly slow, and I
> > > couldn't get it start a program within an acceptable time so I powered
> > > down plex86 when I got tired of waiting. I tried changing the ips, and
> > > vga_update directives in my config file but that didn't help me any. If
> > > it make a difference I was using a CVS version from 2-3 weeks ago.
> > > I hope this is possible because rebooting is no fun.
> >
> > The first rev is not fast. Many areas are not tuned at all. But
> > I'm working on the next architectural rev which will be much faster,
> > then can work on tuning other areas for even more performance.
> >
> > This is still in development, so run it with that in mind.
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
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> > Kevin Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > MandrakeSoft, Inc. Plex86 developer
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ http://www.plex86.org/
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