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

[Antony G. <cuz...@gm...>]

Try Loadlin with no memory managers installed.


> On Dec 29, 2016, at 11:49 PM, Ralf Quint <fre...@gm...> 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 Win95, I said Win98SE, and I did not try to
>>  run FreeDos under Windows; I tried to start  Windows from
>>  FreeDOS.  This said,  I did not expect that to work, I just
>>  noted what did happen.
> NO version of Windows will start from FreeDOS, not 3.x nor any 9x...
>> 
>>> Dunno, try Gujin (DOS version) instead, it should work
>>> (although I likely only tried like once several years ago):
>>   The point was not how to boot Linux, it was to show another
>>  difference in behaviour between FreeDOS and MSDOS 7.
> 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. The last standalone version of MS-DOS was 
> 6.22 and that is as far as FreeDOS can reasonably take it...
>>  However, it would be nice if loadlin worked under FreeDOS.
> Have you tried to contact the maintainer of loadlin about this?
> 
> Ralf
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