Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/05/12:40:21
Something That I have just been playing with to save me having to reroute
all my IDE cables and open up my box is using the bios to change the boot
drive letter. ( usually under advanced on award bios)
THis is time consuming ( I only had to do it a couple of times booting off
a couple of different hd's) as you have to wait for the computer to reset,
also probably only an option on the pentium + m/b's. Basically the drive
letter you pick for the boot becomes C: and re-assigns drive letters to
other drives
Don't know if this would solve the DR-DOs needing to be at the beginning of
a drive but was just a thought.
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan S. [SMTP:as173 AT cornell DOT edu]
Sent: Saturday, 3 February 2001 5:37 AM
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: using DRDOS7.05 COMMAND.COM with WinMe
While this solution offers some pluses [I'd REALLY like the LOADER
solution to work properly, it would be the BEST solution to adding back
the REAL DOS boot option that MS took away from WinMe], it does not
directly solve the problem of how to use the DRDOS COMMAND.COM under
WinMe. Plus...
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Actually, if I had to choose between running the DRDOS COMMAND.COM under
WinMe and having a fully functional WinMe/DRDOS dual boot, I'd choose
the dual boot! But the reality is that I can have neither one!
Alan S.
2-2-2001
Patrick Moran wrote:
>
> Instead of using a DOS window like it appears you did, make a DOS
> mode icon and reboot into DRDOS 7.05. You can still dualboot using
> DRDOS LOADER and choose to go into ME or DRDOS.
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