Re: booting Linux from a dos box in win3.1
Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:40:32 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> For Windows NT, I think a VxD would be needed. They run in kernel
> mode, so they can shut down all the services and then just start
> the Linux code directly. That would work for all platforms I think,
> and it would mean the real-mode code could be eliminated for i386.
>
Hmm, NT as a boot loader ....
Bryn
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