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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

Another possible resolution for Xvesa startup problems owing to DOS config 
files that I've run across lately is to use syslinux.  I was fiddling with 
a laptop on which Xvesa would not start recently when booting from DOS 
(FreeDOS boot floppy), despite the fact that no memory management was 
being used.  I finally decided to put syslinux on a floppy and tried 
booting from it: Xvesa then started just fine.  It is possible to boot 
even a DOS hard drive partition using syslinux.  It's not recommended, but 
it apparently does work (I didn't try it, but the syslinux site seemed to 
indicate it could work).  Maybe booting the system using syslinux is the 
way to go to get around these DOS/Xvesa conflicts.  A boot menu could be 
configured that would allow booting into either DOS or BL.

James