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2019 Apr 19
1
Question of syslinux chainloading
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>> support FAT32 equally well.
>>
>> MS-DOS 8.00 (without some patches that are around) only supports
>> booting in DOS mode from diskettes. Hard disk booting only succeeds
>> when directly passing control to the Windows loader.
>>
> Rufus can only extract DOS8 files from my WindowsXP. I also tried
> HPUSBFW, which can specify DOS files location, so I used it to create
> DOS7 and DOS8 USB boot disk (on the same USB-HDD, after Rufus
> experiment, only io.sys and command.com), and the result is the same:
> DOS8 can boot while DOS7 failed. Even s...
2019 Apr 12
2
Question of syslinux chainloading
...hainload. The MSDOS boot files require some conditions
>> for them to be able to boot. The easiest way to achieve the adequate conditions
>> is to create an MS-DOS 7.1 boot disk, test it, and then install SYSLINUX on it.
>>
> Follow your suggestion, I used Rufus to create a MSDOS8 (the only
> version it supports on XP) boot disk, tested it OK. Then before
> installing Syslinux, I copied MSDOS 7.1 file io.sys and command.com
> over, and it fails to boot. I copied MSDOS 8 files back, and it can boot
> again. Then I installed Syslinux, but "msdos7=io.sys"...
2019 Apr 13
0
Question of syslinux chainloading
...SW XP DOS boot diskettes) both
> support FAT32 equally well.
>
> MS-DOS 8.00 (without some patches that are around) only supports
> booting in DOS mode from diskettes. Hard disk booting only succeeds
> when directly passing control to the Windows loader.
>
Rufus can only extract DOS8 files from my WindowsXP. I also tried
HPUSBFW, which can specify DOS files location, so I used it to create
DOS7 and DOS8 USB boot disk (on the same USB-HDD, after Rufus
experiment, only io.sys and command.com), and the result is the same:
DOS8 can boot while DOS7 failed. Even simply copying DOS8 f...