From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Cohen Subject: EMM386 not installed - protected mode software already running. Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:49:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4CBDA1E2.3010507@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org More on the "Hoo Boy this is going to be interesting" front: I've made a little progress with the previous problems, now realizing that the system needs to be initialized. I have (I think) copied the files necessary for system initialization to a directory under ~/.dosemu and switched my dosemu.conf to point to this directory for boot. I know this configuration is correct because it behaves differently than when it is not present - namely the system does not successfully load. This directory, unlike the stock one, is set up for MS-DOS, not for FreeDOS. The symptom manifests itself as an error message eventually leading to a non-load of the system. Typing F8 during config.sys initialization shows me the following as it steps through my config.sys BREAK=OFF[Y,N]?Y FILES=30[Y,N]?Y BUFFERS=30[Y,N]?Y STACKS=9,256[Y,N]?Y DOS=HIGH,UMB[Y,N]?Y LASTDRIVE=V[Y,N]?Y SHELL=c:\dos\command.com c:\dos\ /E:1024 /P[Y,N]?Y DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS[Y,N]?Y DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE frame=none x=C000-C7FF x=E000-E7FF [Y,N]?Y EMM386 not installed - protected mode software already running. What does this mean? What protected mode software is already running? Please forgive my noob questions but it's almost 20 years since I worked with DOS or had to think about HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE and the like. Steve Cohen