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DOS and Win98 can't be started separately. I really have no way out. I changed things back and forth, rebooted countless times, and I don't understand those English heavenly books. After taking so many detours it still doesn't work, so I can only ask for help! Thank you very much!!! The moderator's article is about adding DOS to 2k (xp). I've read it countless times, but still can't make the added DOS start separately from 98. I also went through all 6 option installations of the moderator's DOS 7.10, and got into pure DOS too, but when I type windows\win.com it blue screens and crashes, and Windows can't start. Thanks.........................

If you want to enter Win9x from that Super MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk (not the MS-DOS 7.10 system on the hard disk with MSDOS.SYS already configured), you can't start Win9x by entering c:\windows\win.com all at once. You have to enter it separately instead (this is explained in the README.TXT file on that super boot disk), for example:

c:
cd \windows
win

Many thanks, moderator. If that's the case, wouldn't it be much simpler for me to just set bootgui=0 directly? Hehe. I want the MS-DOS item on the boot menu to point directly to C:\, or let the MSDOS item on the menu point to the msdos71 on the hard disk, so that choosing the MS-dos menu item goes directly to drive C:\ and uses the tools in dos71; while choosing windows goes directly into 98. (The moderator's boot disk already has that, I'll use it again when I run into problems.) The problem is that I can't separate them. After I installed msdos71, I saw that the MSDOS.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT the moderator rewrote on drive C both point to dos710, so my 98 also enters dos710. So how can I separate them?

Or, would it work by configuring config.sys properly? If so, how should it be configured correctly?

Then use the CONFIG.SYS menu configuration, for example:


MENUITEM=DOS71,MS-DOS 7.10
MENUITEM=WIN32,Windows 3.2
MENUITEM=WIN98,Windows 98


...


...


...

Then add this to AUTOEXEC.BAT:
...
GOTO %CONFIG%
...
OS71
GOTO END

:WIN32
WIN32\WIN
GOTO END

:WIN98
CD WIN98
WIN
GOTO END
...

:END

I wrote it according to boss's config and autoexec:

MENUITEM=DOS71,MS-DOS 7.10
MENUITEM=WIN32,Windows 3.2
MENUITEM=WIN98,Windows 98


...


...


...


autoexec:
...
GOTO %CONFIG%
...
OS71
GOTO END

:WIN32
WIN32\WIN
GOTO END

:WIN98
CD WIN98
WIN
GOTO END
...

:END


But the added msdos option still goes into win98? (sweat......)

Is there a BootGUI=0 line in MSDOS.SYS?

Hello Wengier: there is a BootGUI=0 line in MSDOS.SYS. Right now, when I choose msdos or windows on the boot menu, another lower-level boot menu appears:
MS-DOS 7.10
Windows 3.2
Windows 98
I still have to choose DOS or win there before it enters the selected system separately. And choosing dos gives: There is an unrecognized command in your config.sys files and .......error in your config.sys files on line7 .(I don't understand English, exhausting!) Isn't this just making me go one more round compared with picking 98 from the original 3 choices of xp 98 dos, then quickly pressing F8 and choosing 5? ^_^ And I still haven't managed to go directly into pure dos from the option?

I can't capture that prompt. By the time I start the screen capture software, that screen has already passed. I put it at the very beginning of Autoexec, but once it starts, there's nothing after it. Hehehe, both angry and anxious, this DOS grandpa! ：）Could some friend also answer this by the way: how to capture the 1st boot screen? Especially when the prompt has already filled the whole screen. Many thanks.

To directly choose WinXP, MS-DOS 7.10, and Win98 like that is usually impossible (unless there is a boot manager such as SPFDISK, etc.). I suggest still using a two-level menu instead (that's what I use in my system)。。

I placed the config file as you said. I removed the win32-related lines, MENUITEM=WIN32,Windows 3.2 and so on, but this prompt always appears under the 98 and dos boot menu:
There is an unrecognized command in your config.sys files and There is an error in your config.sys files on line13( the number changes with modifications)
c:\ ... It says this is an invalid command or filename here. I deleted the ... on the first line of Autoexec, and then this error prompt disappeared.

This is my config. What's wrong with it?:

devicehigh=c:\windows\himem.sys
DEVICE=c:\windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO


MENUITEM=DOS71,MS-DOS 7.10
MENUITEM=WIN98,Windows 98


...


...

I hadn't been to the forum for two days, and after repeated reboots I finally figured it out. It's really not easy for a newbie who doesn't know bird language, sigh~ you can imagine. The line X error came from those 3 dots the moderator wrote. After deleting them, there were no more error messages. Since I don't know bird language, I kept deleting and changing things, and eventually deleted those 3 dots. But what's the reason for this error? Please explain that too if possible. The new problem is: I added smartdrv 20480+20480 to Autoexec, and then it can only boot DOS. 98 won't run anymore. I have 64 MB RAM, is it because this is too small?
Also, I added @ECHO OFF before the loaded mouse and cdrom drivers, so why do they still show output?

Those three dots (...) were just an ellipsis. How could you type them in directly?

Hahahaha, this is killing me! I'm really newbie enough, hehe! Ashamed and embarrassed, ashamed! Could the moderator answer the remaining questions? Why are you so elusive, firing one shot and then changing places

The following is quoted from xiaojun's post on 2003-8-3 2:31:17:
I hadn't been to the forum for two days, and after repeated reboots I finally figured it out. It's really not easy for a newbie who doesn't know bird language, sigh~ you can imagine.   The line X error came from those 3 dots the moderator wrote. After deleting them, there were no more error messages.  Since I don't know bird language, I kept deleting and changing things, and eventually deleted those 3 dots. But what's the reason for this error?   Please explain that too if possible.  The new problem is: I added smartdrv 20480+20480 to Autoexec, and then it can only boot DOS. 98 won't run anymore. I have 64 MB RAM, is it because this is too small?
               Also, I added @ECHO OFF before the loaded mouse and cdrom drivers, so why do they still show output?

This is the reason 98 won't run. The memory allocated for smartdrv cannot be used by 98. You only have 64M RAM total, and you used up tens of megabytes for that. What memory is left for 98?

Many thanks, big brother in the post above. I added @ECHO OFF before loading mouse and cdrom, so why do they still show output?