Re: Dual boot with dos on floppy

AJR wrote:

While selecting an option in boot.ini you are still within XP boot
procedure - messge you are receiving re:HAL.DLL indicates system
cannot find XP .
The following may work - copy floppy contents to a folder on C - add
C:\"floppy contents"
Interesting comments will be received about DOS and XP - the name
command prompt is same as MS-Dos prompt (a rose by any other name...)
- Recovery console commands are DOS based - and finally how does XP
create through A drive properties>format> option to create a "MS-D0S
startup disc"?

While the commands in the recovery console are similar to DOS commands the
recovery console is not DOS in any way shape or form. By your logic DOS is
actually CP/M or Unix because some of the commands work the same.

Kerry




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