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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Can you explain in simple terms where/how to get syslinux and install it 
to use as a boot manager (boot to DOS or linux)?  Will it do SCSI boot? 
We are unable to boot to a DOS scsi disk in three computers with AMIBIOS 
set to boot from SCSI first.  We can boot to SCSI linux drive with loadlin 
and David's scsi 2.4.31 kernel.

Did your laptop have a DOS mouse driver installed?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, James Miller wrote:

> 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
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