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From: Carlos E. R.
As most hw manufacturers force us to boot into dos to upgrade BIOS or run diagnotsics we all need to keep a floppy (or usb) with dos on it. I know I can create a small partition and install the floppy contents thee and add the requisite entry to grub (or lilo).
My question is we can boot and jump into memtest using a floppy, or a menu entry in grub using a dot bin file. Can we do the same with dos 6.22 and not create a new partition for dos?
You can emulate dos inside linux. You can run a dos virtual box using vmware or virtual box or whatever. But no, you can not boot a file and have dos. And the first two options are useless to update the bios (a virtualized system accesses a virtual bios, not the real bios); and the emulated dos will be refused access to the bios by the linux kernel. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Thanks Carlos, I suspected so much - I just wanted to make sure I didn't overlook anything. Furthermore, if I need to run any type of dos diagnostic that generates a log file, booting from an image or file would not work anyway. Vahe ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org