Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:58 PM 10/6/2005 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: as for the nature of the XMS driver, to my surprise FDXMS286 *can* be loaded by DEVLOAD, a commandline loader. So, it's runtime loadable (no idea if it would also crash on 8086) and supports 80286 platform Huge drawback to that is that it's not a

[Freedos-user] emm386 on 286 (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > You cannot simultaneously argue that > EMM386 may use a 386-level test to help configure loading at boot time, yet > a separate program cannot legitimately perform the same test. The nature > of EMM386 and HIMEM precludes loading them at a subsequent DOS prompt. Hmmm... misunde

[Freedos-user] Grub for PcDOS / Suse

2005-10-06 Thread Carl Spitzer
linux:/home/juno # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Aug 23 21:59:26 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,9)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 9.2 kernel (hd0

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: Let us avoid the sillier debates. You cannot simultaneously argue that EMM386 may use a 386-level test to help configure loading at boot time, yet a separate program cannot legitimately perform the same test. The nature of EMM386 and HIMEM precludes loading them at a

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:13 PM 10/4/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: with> and The errorlevel thing would also have the problem that EMM386 and HIMEM are device drivers. You cannot do "if errorlevel ..." in config sys, so the suggested solution is ruled out. Let us avoid the sillier debates. You cannot simultane