[Linux-Anyway] Re: W98 boot disk
- From: John Richard Smith <bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:29:47 +0100
storm wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:22, Godwin Stewart wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:42:53 -0600, storm <storm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Not quite. The config.sys file won't load exe or com files. It'll just
>>>spew gibberish across the screen.
>>>
>>Errrm... I beg to differ. Some drivers *are* in the form of .exe files.
>>
>>Why doesn't "device=emm386.exe" spew gibberish on the screen?
>>
>
>Wha?? Hey! You're right! See, I was just repeating what I'd learned in
>college,... guess I should have checked it out further, before I
>believed it. Sorry, My bad.
>
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We live and learn.
so then perhaps the important thing to remember is if the file is a
straight driver, whether .exe. , .com or whatever load through config sys
but if the file is a programme load through
autoexec.bat
If I may encapsulate,
Bios loads io.sys to handle the I/O
msdos.sys configures more
the OS reads config.sys for driver
(load drivers here)
then loads command.com to execute autoexec.bat
(load programmes in autoexec.bat)
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So does a linux floppy work in a similar manner ?
John
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