Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > > Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > >> Will it boot anything? > > > > Yes, it would boot linux, but gave the "you don't have a disk in your > > boot device" error message, press enter to continue.... <Grrr> :) > > Damnit damnit :) don'cha hate that...btw does this machine have a DDO on the > drive? > A ddo is a "Dynamic DIsk Overlay, they are used on Big (ie 1.2 gig or so) > drives > so that > older machines can use them without BIOS upgrades > (which for a machine without a flash BIOS...can run $60 easy) > Some DDOs wont boot a Non-DOS OS...like Lilo > the solution... fdisk /mbr the suckers :)
This is a recent Pentium II 233Mhz system and as far as I know there is no DDO software in it. It's using, I believe, EIDE and was able to cleanly address the entire 5Gig drive as one partition. > > Just yesterday I decided to try the loadlin route and when it got done, > > I had a bunch of garbage added to my autoexec.bat so that it > > automatically went into loadlin every time I booted. In addition, > > because of the presence of the ZIP drive, I discovered that somewhere in > > the guts of Win95 there is a call to the Iomega guest program and it > > hangs there and never does make it into the DOS command prompt. That was > > the first time I'd tried to boot into DOS after I installed the ZIP > > drive. Didn't know I couldn't do that anymore. > > > Too bad Loadlin doesn't run as a Windows application. I can set up a DOS > > boot diskette, but that sure seems gruesome and a last resort. > > > > it could....you might be able to.... > make a "Shortcut" to "command.com" > tell it that it has to run in DOS mode and that you wish to specify the > environment... > take out any "Guest" calls...and add the loadlin to the "fake" autoexec.bat > that > you are using to specify the environment > (yes I ocasionally work in an un-orthodox manner...) > I did that and didn't notice any guest calls. Made me suspect that it was getting kicked off some other way. I checked the usual .ini files in /windows and /windows/system and also did a search thru the registry all to no avail. What I need is a MSDOS grep so I can dig automatically thru all the files on the system and look for any references to guest.exe. Dave -- --David E. Scott Ohio Administrative Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
