Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4FD673D@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: DOS/Linux coexistence (was: [Club Dr-DOS]) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:46:23 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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 ... 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