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The 'quit to DOS' option was not enough: it kept some windows bits until running, maybe in TSR mode. To use loadlin, you had to reboot and press f8 during boot
by marcodiego 5y ago
The 'quit to DOS' option was not enough: it kept some windows bits until running, maybe in TSR mode. To use loadlin, you had to reboot and press f8 during boot and then choose to run DOS.
- pas 5y agoLinux was not able to reset (clean out) those bits?
- marcodiego 5y agoI don't know what linux would actually do in that situation. Actually the loader (loadlin) is what failed. The message was not that informational, somewhat cryptic or non-memorable because I really don't remember anymore. But I think you can see the problem happening again if you try to use one of those distros that booted from a fat filesystem on dosbox.