From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:48:07 -0500 (EST)
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To:	Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
cc:	OpenDOS discussion list <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] LOADLINing OpenDOS???
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> >Hmmm.  Has anyone tried loading OpenDOS from within DOS 6.22 with
> >LOADLIN?  I doubt it would work, but it may be worth a try no?
> >
> >LOADLIN.EXE C:\IBMBIO.SYS ?????
> >
> >Just a dumb suggestion from someone who is very tired and ready for 12
> >hours of sleep.
> 
> It shouldn't take too long to write one.  According to the "How It Works --
> MBR" from the grub documentation, all you need to do is to load the boot
> sector that you saved to a file into memory location 0000:7c00, and jmp to
> it.

Hmm, so my dumb suggestion is not so dumb after all?  Cool!  Now
that will fix one problem, I wonder if the kernel image is
compressed?  I wan't to change CONFIG.SYS to ODCONFIG.SYS
so that the 2 DOS's don't mess with each other.

TTYL



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