[LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

[Augusto Pedroza]

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


It's good to remember that ADLO uses bochs  bios, it does not implement
interrupts itself.



-- 
Augusto Pedroza
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