Hello Lorne,
Sunday, Sunday, August 29, 1999, you wrote:
LS> Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>>
>> Did you determine if the DOS=noauto solves your boot problems?
LS> Axalon,
LS> I've FINALLY got some time to some testing on the win98 autoboot
LS> problem.
LS> DOS=noauto does not work. It tried it alone and at the end of the
LS> DOS=UMB,noauto.
LS> I DID find that by REM out himem.sys the problem went away. So
LS> apparently somehow the himem.sys locks the file system. I'll do some
LS> more research on a switch for this. Even if you put a warning message in
LS> the text file that using the new OS boot disk requires hitting F5 when
LS> you see the booting <OS> messgae. This will bypass all config.sys and
LS> autoexec.bat files will work. The only down side to this is you would
LS> not have Cdrom support. So I will still try to find a better answer.
I am getting a bit confused about this thread what you are exactly
trying to accomplish...
Booting with a ms boot disk?
Modifying a ms boot disk?
Booting with all that stuff ms supplies for loads of different cdroms
or just the IDE based ones.
As far as I know almost ALL specialised disk tools, disc recovery programs warn
about the himem and its unlikely you can get around it unless you
remove it.
On the other hand if you can email me exactly what you are trying to do, I may
be able to get some info from friends in MS...
Or I may even have tools on my system. I mean I have about 25 gb on my
system as storage and while most is rather useless, utilities and
oddball files is something I tend to collect and store for whan I need
it.
Personally I still think: let them make a boot floppy and tell them
Winimage can do this as well from the image Linux boot file.
Secondly if you mean by pressing F5 to go to dos mode less drivers,
that doesnt have to be correct.
1. you have to press a number, not function key.
2. secondly, actual numbers can and will vary depending on other items
installed..
If you are after a boot floppy which is legal and has cdrom drivers,
what about using a Caldera (dr dos floppy) with lets say NEC drivers for cdrom
with mscdex which is freely spread around.
NEC cdrom drivers from 4 speed onwards will load about any ide cdrom
drive I know about.
Except 10/12 /14 speed Wearnes and most of those lousy drives
have died ages ago..
LS> Lorne
Best regards,
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