Hi!
4-Окт-2006 00:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony) wrote to
<[email protected]>:
T> I installed FreeDOS using the downloaded ISO. I was shocked to see ISOLINUX,
T> which I have already posted about, not a major problem, but I will point out
T> that Microsoft doesn't use grub to boot XP,
1. XP doesn't boots from CD.
2. MS _uses_ bootmanager, even if it not called "grub" and it included into
package.
T> and IBM didn't use LILO to boot
T> the OS/2 Warp CDs
OS/2 may boot from CDs?
T> so I think we (the FreeDOS development community) can find
T> a way to get the FreeDOS boot CD to use FreeDOS to boot.
You free to write your own, another CD booter (which also may be
included into FreeDOS package). But you should remember, that DOS boots only
from diskette or primary partition of hard disk.
Booting from logical partition possible, but DOS anyway will assign C:
to active primary partition.
Booting from non-HD devices (more precisely: from devices, which can't
mimic as floppy or HD through BIOS), like CD-ROM, in DOS is impossible,
because requires special drivers inclusion into kernel.sys. Why? When you
may use external booter and don't complicate OS by non-native functions.
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