Mail Archives: opendos/2002/05/29/01:55:38
No, it's not from a song (AFAIK), it's just a "saying" ...
Since there is no news about DR-DOS :-(thanks Lineo!), I have a few
questions
about DOS/Linux coexistence :
Firstly, I seem to recall someone here mentioning that LILO could be
installed in
either the MBR or the DOS boot sector. The LILO documentation also seems to
suggest this and that recent versions of LILO and Ontrack's DM were
compatible.
Yet, having installed (and used) Linux for the first time a few weeks ago, I
was
unable to install LILO without it overwriting the Ontrack MBR/DDO, no matter
what I tried. Fortunately, I had upgraded the MB before attempting to do
this, so
I wasn't relying on the DDO to overcome the 1024 cylinder problem in Int 13
(the
new BIOS provides LBA translation). So, I wonder, has anyone been able to
install LILO and retain Ontrack's MBR/DDO or is this possibility a myth?
Incidentally, people often state that the Ontrack DDO will make disk access
a
bit slower and that the BIOS LBA setting should be used instead, to overcome
the 1024 cylinder Int 13 limitation. I have always expressed scepticism
whenever
this has been suggested. Upgrading the MB gave me an opportunity to test
this,
rather than speculate from theory. As expected, there was very little
difference
between using the Ontrack DDO and using the BIOS LBA feature. The average
seek times were identical (to 4 decimal places!) and the throughput was
actually
about 5% *higher* using the Ontrack DDO, than using the BIOS LBA feature.
Just thought this was an interesting bit of trivia ... <g>
Back to the topic of LILO, one thing that annoys me is that when it writes
it's boot menu (which looks OK), it then writes a garbled boot selection
prompt, awaiting selection of the menu choice. I can't figure out why the
boot selection prompt message is garbled. I'm not 100% sure where it gets
the boot menu text or the prompt message text. I read the documentation
which indicated what file LILO supposedly reads to get the menu text, but
this isn't text in the ASCII sense. The documentation suggests it's actually
a PCX file, but when I try to view it as a PCX file, it clearly isn't any
graphics
format that I can view. Any idea how to fix this annoying little problem?
Finally, while I can access the DOS partitions from Linux, what should
I use to access the Linux partition from DOS?
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Xaver [SMTP:florianx AT drdos DOT org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:57 AM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: [Club Dr-DOS]
>
> Hi!
>
> > Thanks for the post Florian. I was beginning to think everyone had died
> > and gone
> > to DOS Heaven, wherever that is.
>
> No, but there are NO Dr-DOS news at the moment, hope that this will
> change!
>
> > By the way....Home is where the heart is!!!
>
> Mh...i know this sentence...it is from a song?
>
> bye, flox
> --
> "Pass auf...sei vuasichtig und loss da nix gfoin!!"
> Florian Xaver
> E-Mail: florianx AT drdos DOT org / ICQ#:59264800 /
> http://members.aon.at/seal/other/
> Unofficial Dr-DOS page http://www.drdos.org
> DOS and SEAL programs http://www.seal.de.vu
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