From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:09:27 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Can't load dos
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> > Has any one solved the: "Can't load DOS"-problem yet?
> > For the people who don't know what I'm talking about (or maybe because I'm
> > a bit vague :-) )...
> > I installed OpenDOS on the firts partition of my second hardisk
> > (/dev/hdb1).
> > I used "dd" to copy the bootsector to a file and put that file into my
> > NT-Bootloader-menu-thingy.
> > Oh yeah, I also made the partition bootable.
> > But when I boot I get the message: "Can't load DOS".
> > There were others who had this problem, is it solved?

> don't know if this is the problem you had, but i use 4DOS and when i 
> installed OpenDOS it removed 4DOS.COM from the root directory...

Install 4DOS into C:\4DOS\*.*.  Then put the following into
CONFIG.SYS:

SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.COM C:\4DOS /P /F /E:1024

That should work.  When I installed OpenDOS, my 4DOS wasn't touched at
all.


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Download OpenDOS, then: CDD C:\^DEL /ZS MSDOS.SYS IO.SYS \DOS\*.*