Re: [ros-general] List of compatable programs

[Ralph Shumaker]

Curtis Spivey wrote:

> >  As a general
> > rule, if something doesn't run under Wine, it most likely won't
> > run under ReactOS at the moment. This will change though, the list of
> > working software is growing and will continue to do so until everything
> > works.
> >
> >     
> >  
> That's too bad.  I haven't used Windoze for several months now.  I
> hoped to never use it again.  I do really miss my Bible software.  I
> hate to throw $500 out the window.  I've used Bibletime, but it's just
> not the quality application that I'm looking for.
> I have windows ME installed on a partition but I have been unable to
> get it to boot.
>   
>  
Well M$ wHinders does not like to be second.  Not one bit!  If it is 
anywhere but the first primary partition, you will have to tell grub to 
hide the partitions that come before it.  Assuming this is the first 
hard drive in your system, and that wHindersME is on the second partion, 
insert into /boot/grub/grub.conf a line that goes "hide (hd0,0)" before 
the lines that hand the booting off to wHindersME.  Also, make the 
wHindersME partition the active boot partition.  But be sure to unhide 
the hidden partitions during subsequent boots.  If wHindersME is not on 
the first physical drive, it will be necessary to swap drives.  You can 
do that physically, or just tell grub to do it.  Here's an example of 
two of the entries in my grub.conf:

title M$ wHinders 95 (hde1)
#       if hde is the second physical HDD, it is hd1 in grub
        unhide (hd1,0)        <--- This gets hidden by another boot
        map (hd0) (hd1)       <--- These two lines tell grub to swap the
        map (hd1) (hd0)             first two physical HD's in BIOS' report
        rootnoverify (hd1,0)  <--- This is necessary to boot M$ wHinders
        chainloader +1        <--- This tells grub to read 1st sector 
(of hda2)
        boot                  <--- This tells grub, "OK, let her rip."
title M$ wHinders 98 (hda2)
        hide (hd0,0)          <--- This hides hda1
        unhide (hd0,1)        <--- This ensures that hda2 is UNhidden
        unhide (hd1,0)        <--- This gets hidden by another boot
        unhide (hd2,0)        <--- As does this
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)  <--- This is necessary to boot M$ wHinders
        chainloader +1        <--- This tells grub to read 1st sector 
(of hda2)
        makeactive            <--- This activates the boot flag of hda2
        boot                  <--- This tells grub, "OK, let her rip."