[LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Fri May 18 23:03:40 CEST 2007


On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:51:40PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 18/05/07 22:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > I don't think Bochs does USB storage.
> 
> Which is understandable.  USB is a very annoying and complex
> protocol,

I really like USB, in part exactly because it is heavy on the host
and light on the devices. But it IS a lot of work for the host.


> shoehorn

PC is f*d up.


> trivial to you,

Far from it.


> but somewhere, somebody had to go out of their way to make it go.

Indeed. I never use it myself, but hat off to anonymous coders
everywhere.


> But VGA isn't the only show-stopper - none of the software
> interrupts are supported, so DOS will really be quite helpless.

Well, this could be done with Bochs.


//Peter




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