Hello Ralf Quint,
I am not sure if you guys all missed a previous post where I said I
found a reference that there are issues with some SMM BIOS
implementations, providing legacy USB support (for keyboard and mice)
and software that is trying to switch in "long mode" (which also might
be used by
Thanks Robert - I read through the bootmgr.txt file and then gave bootmgr a
try. The first hard disk is a 250GB SSD with (3) 32GB FAT32 partitions. The
rest of the drive is unallocated because I thought I would install a Linux
partition there later on.
Windows 2000 is in the first partition, FreeD
I am not sure if you guys all missed a previous post where I said I
found a reference that there are issues with some SMM BIOS
implementations, providing legacy USB support (for keyboard and mice)
and software that is trying to switch in "long mode" (which also might
be used by some memory mana
On 11/14/2020 7:46 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
Hallo Herr Marv,
the windows 2000 boot.ini should work
however it's complicated to advise when you keep this to yourself,
including the resulting error.
+1
Ralf
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> Hey Tom - do you think Windows 2000 boot.ini is the best way to go
> for my particular setup? If you do, I'll give it another try and report my
> errors/messages.
multibooting Windows NT/2000/XP with DOS was a 'no problem' problem in
~1995-2005, using any of multiple (boot.ini, GRUB, bootmgr,
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:40:00PM +0100, Tomas By wrote:
> Installing Linux last has always worked for me. I'm sure there is some
> way to use only the boot loader (or whatever it is).
Indeed - on one of my machines I use multi-boot
DOS/OpenBSD/ForthOS/Windows/Kolibri - and I copied Grub 0.97 (f
Hey Tom - do you think Windows 2000 boot.ini is the best way to go for my
particular setup? If you do, I'll give it another try and report my
errors/messages.
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Hi Marv,
> I spent the last 3 days fooling around with several ways to set my
> Windows 2000/FreeDOS machine set up with a multi-boot menu. I tried GAG,
> Grub4Dos, and the boot.ini file that Windows 2000 uses.
Many years ago I had the DOS/Win2000 combo working on a single drive
using our: https:
Hallo Herr Marv,
the windows 2000 boot.ini should work
however it's complicated to advise when you keep this to yourself,
including the resulting error.
Tom
am Samstag, 14. November 2020 um 16:27 schrieben Sie:
> I spent the last 3 days fooling around with several ways to set my
> Windows 20
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 16:27:28 +0100, Marv wrote:
> Does anyone have any thoughts or advice on setting up a multi-boot menu with
> my FreeDOS setup? At
> this point, I feel lucky that both operating systems still boot and run ok by
> swapping drives in my BIOS!
Installing Linux last has always w
I spent the last 3 days fooling around with several ways to set my Windows
2000/FreeDOS machine set up with a multi-boot menu. I tried GAG, Grub4Dos,
and the boot.ini file that Windows 2000 uses.
Windows 2000 is installed on the 1st hard drive, 1st partition and is my
primary/default system.
Fr
Hi!
I like TK Chia's idea that DOS/16M tried to access the
keyboard controller to change A20: It would probably
stop doing that when HIMEM and/or EMM386 are loaded,
but having a DPMI loaded can be even more convincing.
Same for DOS4GW: If A20 control is already provided by
something else, or pr
This is a very interesting point regarding the keyboard.
I have a standard USB keyboard (actually from Microsoft) that is connected
to this iMac and standard HIC USB mouse that works with I think everything
(including a few FPGA computers I run retro stuff on.
With such a setup, the keyboard works
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