China DOS Union

Just now I officially made a new super fully Chinese graphical DOS boot disk. It first uses GRUB to achieve multi-boot for MS-DOS 7.10, ROM-DOS 7.10, FreeDOS, hard disk, CD-ROM, etc. (this is different from the GRUB boot disk I made before, because this time GRUB+MEMDISK is used to emulate the IMZ as a RAM disk). These three DOSes all support FAT32 and large hard disks, and each uses its own SHELL, so they are all very practical. No matter which DOS boot option you choose, it will automatically start into UCDOS for Chinese support, and then automatically enter the UCSHELL desktop mode. UCSHELL's interface is very nice, quite like the Win3.x GUI interface, even better-looking. There are already some shortcuts (such as EDIT, QV, DIRTEL, etc.), and you can freely add new shortcuts yourself or do other operations. It feels very friendly and intuitive, and it's all in Chinese. All of this can be done on a single floppy disk~~ I suggest everyone give it a try, and comments are welcome. Thanks! Supplement: it has already been tested successfully both on real hardware and in the Virtual PC 5.2 virtual machine.

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This is mainly to build a stronger DOS platform. You can see how powerful DOS is~~ and its extensibility is also very strong. Everyone is welcome to download it and have a look..

Okay, downloaded it, I'll try it first!

Downloaded! Trying it first! THANK YOU!

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I think making boot menus like this on a floppy disk is not inferior at all to the boot menus made on CDs with DiskEmu and the like.. don't you think?

Moderator:
Your GRUB is pretty good. I wonder whether you have a full version of grub there?
When I tried to install it on the hard disk, it said it could not find two files: stage1,stage2
I have also used the GRUB included with Bluepoint Linux. Of course, I don't know which version it was, and I also didn't find out how it supports
*.imz files.. and this is exactly a feature I am looking for. With it, no matter what partition format the hard disk uses, one can directly
realize N systems, especially DOS systems, and this is very important for system maintenance.
I stripped grub out of Bluepoint Linux and made a multi-system management program. It is fairly convenient to use, and I have basically become familiar with some of the required files of this version of grub, but the moderator's memdisk cannot be recognized in this version of grub. How can this be solved?
Actually, I would like to ask the moderator to provide the stag*.* files, otherwise GRUB cannot be installed on the hard disk!
Please give me some guidance, moderator!

Those stage? files are right in the /boot/grub folder on this boot disk..

The functions of different versions of GRUB are not the same. For example, only this version of GRUB supports this MEMDISK, while earlier versions of GRUB do not. I tested that.

After downloading, when booting with this disk and choosing the third freedos menu item, some information is displayed on the screen and then it actually restarts, without entering the UCSHELL interface. What is the reason for this?

The following is quoted from jhhjwok at 2003-7-27 8:00:33:
After downloading, when booting with this disk and choosing the third freedos menu item, some information is displayed on the screen and then it actually restarts, without entering the UCSHELL interface. What is the reason for this?

Then if you choose the first two items (MS-DOS or ROM-DOS), there is no problem, right?

If I choose either of the first two items (MS-DOS or ROM-DOS), I can enter the UCSHELL interface, but if I choose the third item freedos, I cannot enter the UCSHELL interface. So does that mean freedos does not support the UCSHELL interface?

Moderator:
I'm ashamed to say it!
I actually didn't realize those files were hidden files! After trying it out, it can indeed be installed on the
hard disk. I just still don't know whether it can be installed on ext2/fat/fat32 and other partitions. My floppy
drive is broken, so I can't verify it. Please keep an eye on this, moderator! The grub that comes with Bluepoint Linux 2.0
can fully do this!
Also, for booting multiple systems on a bootable CD, I personally think diskemu is still better.
It can boot multiple *.img/*.imz files and is very easy to use. The multi-system boot CD I use
is booted with diskemu.
Unfortunately diskemu cannot be installed on the hard disk, so I had no choice but to look for
a program like the grub provided by the moderator.
Now this wish has been realized. Thanks to the moderator for the hard work!
As for the stage*.* files, they are actually files such as ntfs_stage_1.5, which I guess are used to sup-
port different partitions. You can roughly tell from the prefixes of these files, though I haven't verified
the details!
Thanks to the moderator here!

The following is quoted from jhhjwok at 2003-7-27 14:04:00:
If I choose either of the first two items (MS-DOS or ROM-DOS), I can enter the UCSHELL interface, but if I choose the third item freedos, I cannot enter the UCSHELL interface. So does that mean freedos does not support the UCSHELL interface?

This really is a bit strange.. I first tested booting UCSHELL with MS/ROM/FreeDOS under Virtual PC 5.2, and everything worked normally; but just now when I tested FreeDOS+UCSHELL on real hardware, it failed instead (when I first tested on real hardware, I only tested the MS-DOS 7.10+UCSHELL boot method and didn't find any problems).. I guess there is a problem with HIMEM.SYS (the ROM-DOS one is being loaded)..

Why can't this boot disk file fit on one floppy disk after downloading? I don't know how it should be used.

The following is quoted from ncchengyue1 at 2003-7-27 22:07:18:
Why can't this boot disk file fit on one floppy disk after downloading? I don't know how it should be used.

Use HD-COPY or WinImage and similar software to unpack it onto the floppy disk! Don't copy it directly!