Message-ID:	<01BCD4E0.8A60E520.peaslpw@poa.mmc.org>
From:	"Paul (Bo) Peaslee" <peaslpw AT poa DOT mmc DOT org>
Reply-To:	"peaslpw AT poa DOT mmc DOT org" <peaslpw AT poa DOT mmc DOT org>
To:	"'Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de'" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
	"'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Problem Getting AUTOEXEC to Run at Boot
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 1997 18:24:03 -0400
Organization:	Maine Medical Center
MIME-Version:	1.0

Thanks again, Matthias.  I'll check the CONFIG.SYS again.  I know that 
every line of the CONFIG.SYS is running.  I'll try <F8>, just to make sure. 
 Someone else suggested that the '/P' directive may not be included on the 
SHELL command line.  I'll check that, too.

Is it possible that the original IBMBIO.COM (from MSDOS 6.22) file was not 
replaced during installation.  I'm thinking that I ought to SYS the hard 
drive.  I didn't explicitly do that before assuming that it was done during 
installation or setup.

Hope I can get this rockin' pretty quick.  It looks pretty cool.  I can't 
wait to try some new programming ideas I've got.

Thanks, again.

Bo

-----Original Message-----
From:	Matthias Paul [SMTP:PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de]
Sent:	Thursday, October 09, 1997 10:12 AM
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Problem Getting AUTOEXEC to Run at Boot

On Wed, 08 Oct 1997 14:51:23 -0400 Paul (Bo) Peaslee wrote:

> Installed OpenDOS v7.01 on an old Compaq DeskPro 386e with a 60MB HD and
> 8MB RAM.  OpenDOS refuses to exec the AUTOEXEC.BAT when I boot (warm and
> cold) it.  It doesn't even run the first line of the file.  The AUTOEXEC
> runs fine if I run it manually.   Anyone have any ideas why?  I ran setup 
> to configure it.

Actually, I have no idea what happened, it should by default
(but personally I never run SETUP, but do it all myself... ;-) ).

You are not pressing <F5>, <Ctrl>+<F5>, or <Shift> in the very moment
"Starting DOS..." is displayed, don't you?  Does IBMBIO.COM execute
the CONFIG.SYS file?  Are you using boot menus (maybe the SETUP
program has updated the CONFIG.SYS SHELL= directive in a
configuration block out of reach in your current boot process)?
In your CONFIG.SYS file there should be line like

 SHELL=c:\command.com c:\ /E:1024 /P

or

 SHELL=c:\opendos\command.com c:\opendos /E:1024 /P

or something similar depending on your configuration being *executed*
at startup.  You can try single-stepping through CONFIG.SYS by
pressing the <F8> key when "Starting DOS..." is displayed.  Then,
you will be prompted for (almost) every CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
directive to be executed.

If all this does not help, please try out the updated IBMBIO.COM
ALPHA3 BIOS kernel, available from my web-pages ~opendeng.html in
IBMBIOA3.ZIP.  It has many improvements in this area, but I don't
actually see I reason why it shouldn't work with your files...

 Matthias

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