Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2017-01-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > IIRC, BasicLinux and other UMSDOS Linuxes would not boot/load with > EMM386 as they would put the CPU into V86 mode. After such, loadlin, > et. al., could not recapture control of the CPU and reload the GDT. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2017-01-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > On 2 january Antony Gordon said: > > Try Loadlin with no memory managers installed. > > Good idea. It worked. > > I was using HIMEMX only, no EMM. > Removing the line in CONFIG.SYS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2017-01-03 Thread Louis Santillan
IIRC, BasicLinux [0] and other UMSDOS Linuxes would not boot/load with EMM386 as they would put the CPU into V86 mode. After such, loadlin, et. al., could not recapture control of the CPU and reload the GDT [1]. [0] http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ [1] http://wiki.osdev.org/GDT_Tutorial On

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2017-01-02 Thread Antony Gordon
Try Loadlin with no memory managers installed. > On Dec 29, 2016, at 11:49 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 12/29/2016 4:00 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >> So no, it's not reasonable to expect FreeDOS to work under a >>> running Win95. It may be possible in theory (if

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/30/2016 6:57 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> *I* did it, but that was many years ago. I do remember the VDM didn't >> work. > What I remember (granted, getting old LOL) was that someone had 3.0 > starting but then couldn't do much beyond that. Not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/30/2016 6:57 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > *I* did it, but that was many years ago. I do remember the VDM didn't > work. What I remember (granted, getting old LOL) was that someone had 3.0 starting but then couldn't do much beyond that. Not aware that anyone every got it working (beyond a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Maybe I'm > the wrong one to still be talking about this since I don't know the > gory details. yep. Tom -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org!

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Bret Johnson
> There is no MS-DOS 7, despite what people are trying to tell. That > "Boot part" if Windows 9x will identify itself as DOS version 7, > but never was a standalone version of DOS. Actually, with a little bit of tweaking, it can be -- I do it all of the time. The two main things you need to do

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > Rugxulo said: > >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Jose Antonio Senna >> wrote: > >>> I booted FreeDOS kernel 2042 from a floppy in a W98SE >>> machine,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/29/2016 8:52 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> >>> NO version of Windows will start from FreeDOS, not 3.x nor any 9x... >> I know 3.1 did in the past, with provisos, did that regress? > Sorry but I am not aware that anyone has successfully been able to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-30 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/29/2016 8:52 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > >> NO version of Windows will start from FreeDOS, not 3.x nor any 9x... > I know 3.1 did in the past, with provisos, did that regress? Sorry but I am not aware that anyone has successfully been able to do that... > >> There is no MS-DOS 7, despite

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-29 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 12/29/2016 4:00 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >> So no, it's not reasonable to expect FreeDOS to work under a >>> running Win95. It may be possible in theory (if someone >>> fixed the bugs), but nobody has done it (yet, AFAIK). >>I did not say

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting other O/Ses from FreeDOS

2016-12-29 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/29/2016 4:00 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > So no, it's not reasonable to expect FreeDOS to work under a >> running Win95. It may be possible in theory (if someone >> fixed the bugs), but nobody has done it (yet, AFAIK). >I did not say Win95, I said Win98SE, and I did not try to >