From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:48:07 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: Weiqi Gao cc: OpenDOS discussion list Subject: Re: [opendos] LOADLINing OpenDOS??? In-Reply-To: <199702011423.AA20754@mail.crl.com> Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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 Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca DOS must have's: 4DOS 5.50c ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/jpsoft