Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 13:36:34 -0800
From: "Alan S." <as173 AT cornell DOT edu>
Subject: Re: using DRDOS7.05 COMMAND.COM with WinMe
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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While this solution offers some pluses [I'd REALLY like the LOADER
solution to work properly, it would be the BEST solution to adding back
the REAL DOS boot option that MS took away from WinMe], it does not
directly solve the problem of how to use the DRDOS COMMAND.COM under
WinMe.  Plus...

[1] DRDOS LOADER does not support booting from FAT32 drives,

[2] Booting from a FAT16 drive but using FAT32 logical drives is best
accomplished using the improved drive lettering from the 'buggy' 7.05
[7.04!] IBMDOS.COM & IBMBIO.COM files. [Still waiting for a fix...!]

[3] 7.03 still had problems booting from a primary partition other than
one at the beginning of [some] hard drive.  I have yet to see that this
limitation has been overcome, and for ALL hard drives [with the proper
bootmanager, WinMe will boot from all primary partitions on all hard
drives, and I'm not looking to reduce my existing functionality...]

Actually, if I had to choose between running the DRDOS COMMAND.COM under
WinMe and having a fully functional WinMe/DRDOS dual boot, I'd choose
the dual boot!  But the reality is that I can have neither one!  

Alan S.
2-2-2001



Patrick Moran wrote:
> 
> Instead of using a DOS window like it appears you did, make a DOS 
> mode icon and reboot into DRDOS 7.05. You can still dualboot using 
> DRDOS LOADER and choose to go into ME or DRDOS.