At 12:34 AM 1/7/2005 +1300, Bart Oldeman wrote:
An extract from the patch in grub013.zip is below. It's far nastier. Very
nasty. It's code that assumes that the binary code of FD-kernel's IRQ
stack handling never changes, noone uses STACKS=0, and MS HIMEM may be
loaded (int15 hooked by himem.exe no
Hi!
8-Янв-2005 02:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>>MD> You'd get screen which doesn't update after EMM386 loads.
>> Ie., current EMM386 doesn't check that such maping is wrong and, thus,
>>we get hanging machine (because all subsequent "sc
At 12:54 AM 1/8/2005 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
MD> You'd get screen which
MD> doesn't update after EMM386 loads.
Ie., current EMM386 doesn't check that such maping is wrong and, thus,
we get hanging machine (because all subsequent "screen outputs" will
overwrite code, which will loaded
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30-Дек-2004 13:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>>- what happen if I=B000-B800 will be used on system with mono adapter/mode?
MD> Oh, you mean if you designate a UMB which has memory addresses used by the
MD> active screen, what would happen
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30-Дек-2004 13:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>> BTW, this raise two questions to Michael Devore:
>>- may EMM386 autoinclude given region in some way, if there will not be
>> detected mono adapter/mode? QEMM386 does this.
MD> Automati
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30-Дек-2004 16:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to
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BB> 2?DOS=HIGH
BB> 2?DOS=UMB
2?dos=high,umb ; this is shorter
BB> 2?FCBS=4,4
2?fcbshigh=1
Under FreeDOS this is unimportant, because fcbs are over file handles, but
in MS-DOS this reduces used
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
For "grab int 15 back from HIMEM", please have a look at kill15 from:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/memtest-1.27.zip
Note that MKEYB hooks int 15 in a different way (int 15.4f keyboard
intercept, can be detected by "JNC notme / cmp ah,4f / jnz notme / ...",
so it is the ca
Hi Bart!
> It seems to need this dirty technique to try to restore the BIOS
> IRQ vectors to their original values.
Interesting point... that reminds me of something which FreeDOS kernel
should support and which would not be too hard to do:
D-M00700100--
MEM 0070
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Michael Devore wrote:
> At 01:22 AM 12/31/2004 -0800, 16BIT wrote:
>
> >Grub for DOS prints the following error message if I try and run it with
> >FreeDOS:
> >
> >-
> >
> >Sorry! Currently supported DOS versions are: MS-DOS 3.30 and later;
> >FreeDOS kernel build
At 01:22 AM 12/31/2004 -0800, 16BIT wrote:
Grub for DOS prints the following error message if I try and run it with
FreeDOS:
-
Sorry! Currently supported DOS versions are: MS-DOS 3.30 and later;
FreeDOS kernel build 2029 and, hopefully, 2032 and later.
-
A rather interes
Hi Bernd,
yes, would you like me to convert your example to FreeDOS syntax?
Does the following also work?:
[grub]
SHELL\C:\BOOT\GRUB\GRUB.EXE
It tried it and it works,
Hope I do it correct:
menu 1) GRUB
menu 2) FreeDOS
menudefault=1
menucolor=7,0
1?INSTALL=C:\BOOT\GRUB\GRUB.EXE
2?DOS=HIGH
2?DOS=UM
At 01:43 PM 12/30/2004 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
- what happen if I=B000-B800 will be used on system with mono adapter/mode?
Oh, you mean if you designate a UMB which has memory addresses used by the
active screen, what would happen to the display? You'd get screen which
doesn't update af
At 01:43 PM 12/30/2004 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
BTW, this raise two questions to Michael Devore:
- may EMM386 autoinclude given region in some way, if there will not be
detected mono adapter/mode? QEMM386 does this.
Automatically as default? No. Fails the rule of least surprise and
Hi!
2) Did it appear that I was suggesting how to configure FreeDOS?
A little bit. However, I'm also suggesting (forcing..) people how to
configure FreeDOS by creating a sample config.sys/autoexec.bat when
finishing installation.
Yes!!!
Bye, Flo
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16BIT schreef:
My purpose was to provide a visual template about how to make an MS-DOS
config.sys menu system for the purpose of running GRUB for DOS.
thank you very much for doing this. It shows how to use GRUB (for DOS)
with an installed FreeDOS.
Your email response was the first time I've rea
Hi!
29-Дек-2004 23:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (16BIT) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>> but please fix the following line before making a technote of the HowTo:
>>>DEVICE=C:\MSDOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
1> I learned the include switch more than ten years ago when running the
1> MEMM
Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, the sample GRUB configuration items are all quite interesting,
but please fix the following line before making a technote of the HowTo:
DEVICE=C:\MSDOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
Thanks for your response but I wonder if we are on the same page.
My purpose was to provide a vi
Hi, the sample GRUB configuration items are all quite interesting,
but please fix the following line before making a technote of the HowTo:
> DEVICE=C:\MSDOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
Forcing EMM386 to place an overlay of UMBs over RAM of the graphics card,
even if it is "only" mono text buff
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