Brad Martin wrote:

> I get a similar problem when trying to use the latest CVS version to
> boot a DOS 7 floppy, which worked on earlier versions.  The monitor
> bails out with an error before it even says Starting Windows 95... (log
> included).  Changing the #if 0 to an #if 1 as you suggested fixes the
> problem, and the disk now boots fine (log of this also included).  The
> disk has no config.sys or autoexec.bat files, so its not tripping over
> HIMEM.SYS or EMM386.EXE or something like that.  I did try it with
> HIMEM.SYS and it just complains about not having control of the A20 line
> and continues booting, no panics or anything.  BTW, in case it matters
> at all, I'm running linux 2.2.17, but I know DOS 7 worked on at least
> linux 2.2.16 as well.

OK, thanks.  It's the RM->PM->RM transition that's screwed up.
I suspected that.  Could be a timing dependent thing then, since it
works on my system.  That's a good clue to have.


-Kevin

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