Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Boot problem from MS-DOS

[Michele P. <10...@ti...>]

At 10.56 09/08/2007 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I have a Bootproblem in an older Compaq which needs to start from a floppy 
>with MS-DOS.

But can it boot from an hard drive?

If it can, you could do the following:

1) install (on a newer pc) DL on a compact-flash card using an 
IDE-CompactFlash adapter
2) "transplant" the IDE-CF adapter on the older Compaq and let it boot as 
if it was an hard drive.

If it can boot from a normal HD it really should do the same from a IDE-CF 
card (to the bios it looks exactly as an HD).

If, instead, the pc can't boot from HD, I'd try another MSDOS CD driver, 
better one that can read Joliet and Rockridge CDs, not only ISO9660 ones.

Here are some:

http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/cdrom.htm

If I remember correctly, the DL cds have all three filesystems on them 
(ISO9660 , Joliet and Rockridge).
It's curious however that a short-named file such as linux.bat isn't 
visible in ISO9660 mode...

Good luck!

Michele