[LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all Stefan wrote : Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!? Stefan That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for MSDOS (not Windows) which

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Ceri Coburn
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Hello Stefan and Darmawan and all Stefan wrote : /Since it comes with Linux preinstalled, it should be easier to use Linux than to try getting MSDOS working on there..!? Stefan/ That may very well be true. But I have a program already written for MSDOS

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Janek Kozicki
Ceri Coburn said: (by the date of Fri, 18 May 2007 16:08:34 +0100) Correct me if I'm wrong here guys, but LinuxBIOS as it currently stands does not setup the old BIOS interrupts that DOS uses, which means booting DOS from LinuxBIOS would be a big change Martin - booting Windows/Linux

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Janek Kozicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070518 18:07]: An alternative is to use dosbox (very slow, about 50% of processor speed). I'm afraid that dosemu will not work here (very fast, about 95% of processor speed - I used it to run DOS version of fractint to calculate mandelbrot set). Why does

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Ceri Coburn
MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Hello ceri /Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine / I know. But you're setting the XO up to boot into Windows (XP, I believe?), aren't you? I wouldn''t like to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Augusto Pedroza
On 5/18/07, Ceri Coburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Hello ceri /Martin - booting Windows/Linux is a different as they have their own drivers for various hardware that is present within the machine / I know. But you're setting the XO up to boot into Windows (XP, I

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Ceri Coburn wrote: ADLO is an option for booting DOS as this is how Windows 2000 is booted using LB, but it depends if all the interrupts that DOS uses are implemented within ADLO. We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread MARTIN WOODHOUSE
Hello Adam We had limited luck booting Win98 which is the dos. Get disk reading (int13) working reliably and you should be 95% there. Yes, this is at least partly confirmed since I am currently running all my existing Illumination books on a Windows 98 machine, which has no trouble

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Question, then : will LinuxBIOS allow booting from (specifically) a RAM device in one of the USB ports? LinuxBIOS, ADLO and Bochs could be made to boot from USB storage but it needs some work. I don't think Bochs does USB

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 18/05/07 22:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0100, MARTIN WOODHOUSE wrote: Question, then : will LinuxBIOS allow booting from (specifically) a RAM device in one of the USB ports? LinuxBIOS, ADLO and Bochs could be made to boot from USB storage but it

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Booting into MSDOS

2007-05-18 Thread Peter Stuge
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:51:40PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote: On 18/05/07 22:24 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: I don't think Bochs does USB storage. Which is understandable. USB is a very annoying and complex protocol, I really like USB, in part exactly because it is heavy on the host and