>> actually I would not even OFFER a boot menu item to skip loading the >> XMS driver at all: You cannot even boot the install CD / USB on old >> pre-XMS PC. > > Probably a bad idea for compatibility reasons, unless you offer multiple > choices for which XMS manager to install. E.g., I have a computer where > JEMM doesn't work at all, but some of the others (including MS > HIMEM.SYS) do.
Have you tried explicit "I=nnnn-nnnn" and "X=nnnn-nnnn" commands with JEMM386/JEMMEX?? Both of them were designed to use "ancient" EMM386 memory detection schemes, for compatibility reasons. However, newer devices and/or BIOS routines may require that JEMM386/JEMMEX are told to "avoid" their upper-memory address areas. Re: loading with no XMS driver, that can still be a useful diagnostic scheme, and I continue to permit UIDE/UIDEJR (but no-longer UIDE2) to be run in such a configuration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
