<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ceri Coburn</b> <<a href="mailto:ceri.coburn@googlemail.com">ceri.coburn@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote:<br>> Hello ceri<br>><br>> /Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own<br>> drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine<br>> /<br>><br>
> I know. But you're setting the XO up to boot into Windows (XP, I<br>> believe?), aren't<br>> you? I wouldn''t like to speculate upon why you might be doing this .<br>> . . ( !! ) -- but<br>
> if you're going to the trouble of putting Windows into the mix, why not<br>> add MSDOS<br>> while you're at it ?<br>><br>> Cheers and love,<br>><br>> Martin<br>><br>> */Ceri Coburn <
<a href="mailto:ceri.coburn@googlemail.com">ceri.coburn@googlemail.com</a>>/* wrote:<br>><br>> MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote:<br>> > Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all<br>> ><br>> > Stefan wrote :
<br>> ><br>> > /Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be<br>> > easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!?<br>> ><br>> > Stefan/<br>
> ><br>> > That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for<br>> > MSDOS (not Windows)<br>> > which would be a truly major task to rewrite and recompile to run
<br>> under<br>> > Linux --- as SJ has alreeady pointed out to me.<br>> ><br>> > A presentation of this program can be found on my own Web site<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk">
www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk</a><br>> ><br>> > -- and I do urge everybody to take a look at it. If I cannot<br>> > persuade you all to allow the XO to boot into MSDOS, my current<br>> > alternative is to load both MSDOS itself, and a complete library of
<br>> > Illumination e-books, onto a USB flash drive --- there should be<br>> room<br>> > for around a thousand or so such books on a 1 gig flashstick as<br>> well as<br>> > MSDOS -- and arrange for the flashstick itself to be bootable.
<br>> ><br>> > But this is rather an awkward way round of doing things; I'd much<br>> rather<br>> > the XO could be dual-booted into both Linux and MSDOS. And since<br>> you're
<br>> > already contemplating using Windows an an alternative OS, ( ! ) this<br>> > shouldn't really present too much of a problem, should it?<br>> ><br>> > Cheers and luv to all,
<br>> ><br>> > Martin<br>> ><br>> > /<br>> > /<br>> ><br>> ><br>> Correct me if I'm wrong here guys, but LinuxBIOS as it currently stands
<br>> does not setup the old BIOS interrupts that DOS uses, which means<br>> booting DOS from LinuxBIOS would be a big change<br>><br>> Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own
<br>> drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine<br>><br>> Ceri<br>><br>> --<br>> linuxbios mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:linuxbios@linuxbios.org">linuxbios@linuxbios.org
</a><br>> <a href="http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios">http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios</a><br>><br>><br>ADLO is an option for booting DOS as this is how Windows 2000 is booted
<br>using LB, but it depends if all the interrupts that DOS uses are<br>implemented within ADLO.</blockquote><div><br>It's good to remember that ADLO uses bochs bios, it does not implement interrupts itself.<br></div>
<br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Augusto Pedroza