Hi, On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:36 AM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was not aware of that discussion,but I am curious about one boot > problem.How can I multiboot windows 7 and FreeDOS?I've tried wrapping my > mind around this problem several times,but I can't seem to do it.Is there a > way to do it,or is it not possible?
N.B. *** Backup ALL of your files to separate devices, and make sure you have all of your physical Windows installation DVDs available before attempting anything like this! *** Modern NT-based Windows don't come with MS-DOS anymore. Even NTVDM (32-bit editions only, buggy) isn't guaranteed. At best, by default, you only can make a (very) limited system boot floppy via Explorer. But it doesn't come with FDISK nor SYS, so you can't directly install it to any other disk. (Use third-party RUFUS and/or FD SYS to work around that, maybe.) Actually, Vista (on up) won't even boot from FAT anymore (security reasons?). But at least you can (now, mostly) resize your NTFS, so you can still create a FAT. But you'll probably want to use (third-party) EasyBCD to update the (new) Windows boot manager. MS did, for a limited time, offer "XP Mode", but AFAIK, that was only using Virtual PC emulator, and that was for businesses only, not home users. Same with Hyper-V (which is a hypervisor requiring VT-X, which not all Intel machines have), businesses only, Win8 Pro 64-bit only, and I'm not even convinced that they "want" to support DOS there. You're not "supposed" to use DOS at all anymore, in their minds, only Windows (and related APIs and tools). Summary: In short, I'm not sure if "native" DOS is really best. If you want that, I'd recommend a separate disk entirely (e.g. RUFUS). But it's probably easier overall to just use an emulator (e.g. VirtualBox, DOSEMU, DOSBox). They're not perfect, but nothing is, not even native. (There was more I wanted to say, but I assume this is good enough for now. I'm no expert, but this is generally my experience.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
