LOADLIN could load linux from DOS. And being a .EXE it relied on DOS to bootstrap. So yes, if you didn't use the DOS code (I mean… you overwrote it), then DOS

LOADLIN could load linux from DOS. And being a .EXE it relied on DOS to bootstrap. So yes, if you didn't use the DOS code (I mean… you overwrote it), then DOS is not there. And if DOS is not the OS, that just leaves your code to be the OS. :-)