Re: ReactOS - How can it really make it?
From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 09/23/04
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Date: 23 Sep 2004 01:19:53 +0300
"Dunny" <paul.dunn4@ntlworld.com> writes:
> In news:Mle4d.1981$Pd2.653979@monger.newsread.com,
> T.M. Sommers <tms@nj.net> typed:
> > Dunny wrote:
> > >
> > > It's got a proprietary CDRom drive, which Linux can only make
> > > use of if a driver has been loaded already from a DOS session.
> > >
> > > I was impressed that Microsoft's DOS could detect and use my
> > > drive no problems. And I was less than impressed that no less
> > > than 3 distros of linux utterly failed. I'm sorry to admit it,
> > > but Microsoft has the lead in compatibility *and* stability,
> > > at least in my experience.
> >
> > You mean Microsoft has the lead in incompatibility. Had the
> > CDROM drive not been proprietary, Linux would have found it just
> > fine.
>
> Nah, because the Microsoft driver is (or rather, the OAK driver is) clearly
> superior to anything that linux has to offer - or linux would have detected it.
> The DOS driver doesn't do anything special, it's not got a special "oh, this is
> that panasonic!" code in there. The drive is fully ATAPI compatible - maybe
> linux isn't.
>
> If it weren't for the fact that I can only boot linux from a DOS prompt, I'd be
> learning about linux now. As it is, I get halfway through installing, and then
> the drive is lost due to a reboot. I'm taking it back to the LUG soon, see if we
> can get any further.
Try using boot manager. Yesterday I was unable to boot a very unstable
frankenstein's linux (half Gentoo, half not, eep!) off my very unstable
(works for half an hour usually) CD drive. No dice, until I downloaded
a boot floppy image which claimed to be able to get a system to boot
from any device. And it did, without even breaking into a sweat.
Alas I've forgotten what it was called, and overwritten the floppy
already, but it dropped out of google very swiftly -- Something like
'Smart boot loader', IIRC.
Phil
-- They no longer do my traditional winks tournament lunch - liver and bacon. It's just what you need during a winks tournament lunchtime to replace lost ... liver. -- Anthony Horton, 2004/08/27 at the Cambridge 'Long Vac.'
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