On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Lorne Shantz wrote:
>
>
> Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> >
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> > Did you determine if the DOS=noauto solves your boot problems?
>
> Axalon,
>
> I've FINALLY got some time to some testing on the win98 autoboot
> problem.
>
> DOS=noauto does not work. It tried it alone and at the end of the
> DOS=UMB,noauto.
>
> I DID find that by REM out himem.sys the problem went away. So
> apparently somehow the himem.sys locks the file system. I'll do some
> more research on a switch for this. Even if you put a warning message in
> the text file that using the new OS boot disk requires hitting F5 when
> you see the booting <OS> messgae. This will bypass all config.sys and
> autoexec.bat files will work. The only down side to this is you would
> not have Cdrom support. So I will still try to find a better answer.
>
> Lorne
Yep yep, noauto is supposed to turn off the autoloading of himem, emm386
and others i've forgotten. I don't remeber it being case sensitive but
*shrug*
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--Axalon
