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Matthias Paul wrote:
> On 2002-08-30, Jack Russell wrote:
>
>
>>now I get a message
>>
>>F1 - Dos,
>>F2-disk2
>>
>>Is this from Freedos, whichever I select I get the same thing.
>>I would like to get rid of it.
>>
>
> I don't know where this is coming from, but assuming you ran FreeDOS
> FDISK /MBR, maybe it has installed a small multi-boot loader by
> itself? I haven't checked.
> What I can say is that it is not coming from DR-DOS LOADER,
> although it looks similar. If you reinstall LOADER, you should get:
>
> F1 Standard
> F2 DR-DOS 7.03 (or whatever you have specified in the BOOT.LST file)
>
> Pressing F2 (or if more entries were defined in the BOOT.LST file,
> F2..F10 and SHIFT+F1..SHIFT+F10) will launch DR-DOS IBMBIO.COM (etc.),
> so you will boot right into DR-DOS. If you press F1, LOADER will
> load the operating system which gets loaded by the normal boot
> sector - in your case this should be FreeDOS, but it could just
> as well be Windows 9x/SE/ME, Windows NT/2K/XP, MS-DOS (with little
> tricks PC DOS), ... You can also specify a timeout for F2+ by
> using the [timeout] syntax in the BOOT.LST file. If you want
> to make F1 the default timeout (which is not listed in BOOT.LST),
> you will have to install LOADER as follows (for a 5 second timeout
> to F1):
>
> LOADER boot.lst[5]
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Matthias
>
> PS. Please don't top post & full quote, it looks horrible in the
> digests.
>
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