AW: Booting RTEMS PC386 via dos prompt

[Joel Sherrill]

Thanks Luca!!

When you say "DOS prompt", do you mean just DOS
or could it also be run from the command interpreter 
in Windows?

Luca Abeni wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> if someone is interested, I am going to release a new version of my
> multiboot DOS extender, that should be able to boot rtems applications.
> 
> I put a binary for testing at
> http://hartik.sssup.it/~luca/x.exe
> 
> You can boot the rtems program from the DOS prompt by typing
> x <your rtems application>
> 
> I tested it with the ``hello.exe'' application provided by John Bebbington,
> and it seems to work. So, if someone is willing to test the extender,
> feedback is welcome.
> 
> If you find an rtems application that does not work with x.exe, please
> send me the output of the x command (without any argument) on your
> system, and possibly a binary of the application which failed.
> 
>                         Thanks,
>                                 Luca
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