Re: Boot error

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Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
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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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