Re: [Freedos-devel] Decompressing the FreeDOS kernel

2018-07-09 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/9/2018 7:43 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote: So, I've been looking into de-UPXing the kernel image and keep getting told by the UPX binary that the image "wasn't compressed by UPX". Is there anything special I have to do to convince it otherwise? Was the kernel in fact not com

[Freedos-devel] Decompressing the FreeDOS kernel

2018-07-09 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
So, I've been looking into de-UPXing the kernel image and keep getting told by the UPX binary that the image "wasn't compressed by UPX". Is there anything special I have to do to convince it otherwise? Was the kernel in fact not compressed by UPX? I'm using the latest UPX on Linux Mint 19, if th

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32-bit operating system

2018-07-09 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Paul, > PDOS uses a relocatable a.out format for the > executables. I used a.out format because that > is what EMX 0.9d uses internally. But PDOS > will not even run a DOS-extended EMX > executable. It is only capable of running > a.out format, so everything needs to be > recompiled for the pla