Re: Linux syscalls

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Date: 06/03/04

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    On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:22:03 GMT, Robert Redelmeier
    <redelm@ev1.net.invalid> wrote:

    >Beth <BethStone21@hotmail.nospicedham.com> wrote in miniscule part:
    >> Not to say that I would trust Microsoft completely in saying
    >> some "DOS is completely gone" statement because they _have_ said
    >> this before and it turned out not to be completely true (just
    >> "mostly true" ;)...but something like XP has so many additional
    >
    >AFAIK, MS-WinNT and later vers (incl XP) use MS-DOS as a
    >kernel bootloader. I think that "Safe Mode" screen is MS-DOS.
    No, I think not. I think the the boot sector loads 'ntldr' and goes
    from there.
    >
    >This does not mean the bootloader understands NTFS -- it
    >could just load the kernel from contiguous sectors. `lilo`
    >does it this way. 

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