Re: Dual boot with dos on floppy

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Again,

If you want to learn things before answering, just type
"bootsect.dos" in google.
You'll find something like that:
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm

My need is to keep the floppy inserted and to let me choose. I can NOT
manipulate it.

Cheers

Alex

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> a écrit dans le message de
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Alexandre.delay wrote:
Hi,

I would like to build a boot floppy disk (which will become a CD after
validation) with MS-DOS on IT.
It would first boot and propose to choose between:
-WinXP (on hard drive)
-DOS (on the floppy)
(The idea is to make a boot CD which would permit to get dos on any
PC and booting XP without having to take the CD/floppy out.)

I made my disk like that:
1) I did format it under XP to get the proper MBR on it.
2) I placed boot.ini, NTDLR and NTDETECT.COM on it so that it
boots and propose to choose.
3) I placed the WinME boot disk files (autoexec.bat, command.com,
config.sys, io.sys...)
4) I extracted the WinME MBR and placed it as BOOTSECT.DOS on the
floppy
Here is my boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WinXP" /fastdetect
/NoExecute=OptIn
A:\BOOTSECT.DOS="DOS" /win95dos

I thought it would be ok (and it works perfect for WinXP), but when I
choose DOS, I got an error on <windows root>\system32\hal.dll

What is wrong with this boot disk?

Thanks for your help

Cheers

Alex

This seems like a lot of work to accomplish nothing. If you want to boot
from DOS insert a DOS floppy and boot from it. If you want to boot from XP
remove the floppy and reset the computer. What could be easier? If you are
using this for troubleshooting multiple pc's then it's a total waste of
time. Most XP installations use NTFS so booting to DOS will get you
nowhere.

Kerry




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