On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 19:47, Joe Orthoefer wrote:
> One the thinkpad 600's there was a dos executable you needed to get off of
> IBM's web site to hard configure the legacy hardware. The windows drivers
> that came with the hardware configured those things at run time, but the dos
> executable could do some bios stuff and make them work properly with out
> those magic init strings.
One common "trick" is to not use Lilo/Grub/... as your bootloader and
setup a DOS boot menu in your config.sys to select booting to linux.
Then run the DOS "enablers" in your autoexec.bat (the executables that
"fix" your hardware to work by assigning resources and turning them
"on") and use loadlin to load and boot to your kernel.
Yeah, this means keeping a vmlinuz/initrd pair on your DOS partition,
but it's really easy to set this up and get it working.
- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com>
http://ian.blenke.com
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