Re: booting from DOS 6.2

[larz@world.std.com (Mike A Larson) writes:]

>What does the following message mean?
> Must be in REAL mode (not V86) to boot VSTa
>I get the message when I try to boot VSTa from DOS 6.2. Booting
>VSTa from DOS 3.2 doesn't have this problem.

It usually means you have emm386 active. emm386 runs the CPU in V86 mode so
it can do tricks like remapping pages, but V86 mode keeps VSTa from being
able to take over the hardware, so the boot loader bails if it detects this
situation.

                                                Andy
Received on Tue Jan 31 19:22:24 1995