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kenm AT surfbest.net wrote:
>
> My first idea to correct the Xvesa problems was to 
> write a "clean" set of BIOS interrupt vectors into 
> memory after BL3 boots.  This is still a good idea, 
> but I haven't figured out exactly how to do it, 

Perhaps this is something the loadlin developers should
be looking at.  A cleaner boot of Linux from DOS.

> I wrote a quick program to change the first 32.
> On the basis of tests with a 486, a Pentium, and 
> a Pentium II, this seems to work flawlessly and to 
> allow booting from a "normal" DOS environment 

That is very interesting.  It could be the solution
to our loadlin/Xvesa problems.

> I have found a "multiboot" program which comes with 
> utilities to do this with the use of a temporary boot 
> floppy.  

I don't understand this part.  Does this mean a user 
must boot from floppy to use your method?

> After that, all that is needed is to run my "fix1f.exe" 
> program with the vectors "vector.bin" in the same 
> directory.  

I would definitely like to get a copy of your package 
and experiment with it.

Cheers,
Steven

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