On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > 11. April 2012 um 21:23, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote > >> Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a >> compatibility box, emulator or virtual machine. > > I wonder what you are talking about. > > current machines *do* boot DOS, and mosty likely will continue to do > so for the foreseeable future.
I amend my statement: they'll boot DOS if you jump through an assortment of hoops to get them to do so. I got FreeDOS to boot alongside Win2K and two flavors of Linux on an old notebook, but it took lots of fiddling (and I'm not sure just *which* fiddle did the trick. I was multi-booting from Grub2. A subsequent clean re-install of Win2K to solve other problems broke it. I could get grub and my grub config back, but FreeDOS won't boot, claiming it can't find KERNEL.SYS. (And yes, I'm using a current kernel, SYSed to the correct place from a FreeDOS boot floppy.) I can successfully run DOS apps in a Win2K console window, so fixing it isn't exactly urgent. > Tom ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
