RE: Netboot ms-dos7

["Andrew White" <andywhite@ntlworld.ie>]

Tried mainly with int-15 option (with and without allocating 1.4mb in himem
to int-15 too) I also tried with keep none, undi and and all, but none of
these options helped.

I have tried some more things today, and have found that it's drvspace
causing the problem.  The floppy that I am imaging is a compressed floppy.
I managed to change the scripting and fit what I needed onto a
non-compressed floppy, that still loads drvspace.bin (though doesn't mount
the floppy as it's uncompressed), and it works perfectly now.
  (I was told that to do what I'm doing (booting win98 off ramdisk with
drvspace) that the floppy had to be compressed so that drvspace.bin is
loaded in time, this is partly true, you can just load drvspace by
drvspace.ini without having to compress the floppy)

Apparently drvspace.bin is loaded into the top of concentional memory before
config.sys is processed and then once config.sys is processed drvspace.bin
is moved to the bottom of conventional memory.  There are options using
drvspace.sys in config.sys to control this movement and try and moveit to
HMA etc.  But none of the options resolved the problem.

So the problem isn't resolved, just bypassed, which is good enough for me !

Thanks for your assistance !

.Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-netboot@baghira.han.de [mailto:owner-netboot@baghira.han.de] On
Behalf Of Gero Kuhlmann
Sent: 15 February 2004 18:56
To: netboot@baghira.han.de
Subject: Re: Netboot ms-dos7


Hello,

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:59:57 +0100, Andrew White wrote:
> I am 'trying' to get netboot to work with ms-dos7 (win 98), but seem 
> to be having memory problems.
> [...]
> My config.sys is
> Device=himem.sys /testmem:off
> Device=emm386.exe
> Device=ifshlp.sys
> Dos=high,umb
> 
> I have tried devicehigh options and using int15 options on himem.sys 
> and mknbi-dos, but can't seem to get any further than hanging on the vlm.
> 
> My nic is a 3com pcmcia 3c575b and I'm using ndis driver

How exactly did you call mknbi-dos? You should _NOT_ use any of the 'keep'
options, because that will leave the bootrom network driver attached to the
network interface, and your network stack is probably not able to connect to
it - but that's just a guess. I don't have any experience with Netware.

gero.

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