Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/09/10/12:20:38
Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in <37D74E35 DOT 4E83 AT earthlink DOT net>:
>
> > Have you tried something like this on an ATX computer:
> <snip>
>
> This is a reboot util, or ?? (I don't speak ASM at all)
No, it's a "power-off" util. I wrote it in DEBUG while reading
the APM spec, which is available from:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/APM/
> > It works for me (under DOS and Win95), although I don't need it because
> > my computer has a soft power button in front and a true power switch
> >back on the power source (of course I wish the real switch was in front).
>
> Oooh, but why would you want to have control over power on/off? :)
Maybe I'm a control freak...
> And people wonder why I go out of my way to keep upgrading what's inside
> my wonderful old AT case.
I would have preferred an AT case myself, but the only motherboard with
a sufficient combination of slots (4 DIMM, 3 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP) I could
find was an ATX board (AOpen AX6B).
> > What do you mean "can't dual-boot"? That sounds like a software
> > problem to me.
>
> BIOS problem, I think (I am really, REALLY starting to hate Award BIOSs;
> found another hole in their HD support today, on a semi-recent BIOS that
> won't accept a flash). I don't own one of the nasty things myself, so my
> exposure was mostly with trying to find a quick solution for a friend's
> system so afflicted. Hope I didn't catch anything :) It doesn't want to
> boot into DOS and shutdown from Win98 powers it off. So far nothing
> evident to make it behave more rationally. (He's a Netware guru &
> DOShead, not a Windows type either, but needed the system for a specific
> task and took what was available on short notice)
Did you try setting BootGUI=0 in MSDOS.SYS?
By the way, I multi-boot using CONFIG.SYS menus and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Most OSes I've seen are bootable from DOS: Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
Netware... but I haven't figured out how to do it with NT.
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