[syslinux] Updating BIOS with pxe syslinux memdisk & DOS problems

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 12 14:09:02 PDT 2003


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
>>I did not find bugs in Win98 DOS. All I found is that the return codes
>>from DOS INT calls were different.
> 
> 
> Well, you're not the only person in the universe.
> 
> Win98 DOS *is* buggy.  It mishandles mixes of EDD and non-EDD drives,
> for one thing.
> 

Pardon me for the harsh wording of this message.  I got a bit irked over
being, effectively, told that the known bugs in Win98 DOS don't exist
because you personally hadn't found them.

However, that doesn't excuse that kind of language.

My apologies,

	-hpa




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