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DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术（启动盘室） » How do I modify BOOT.INI to set up XP/MS-DOS 7.1 dual boot?

Floor1　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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How do I modify BOOT.INI to set up XP/MS-DOS 7.1 dual boot? Right now I've only got one kind of startup working... it's not really DOS at all, not even FORMAT is there, let alone any cache, I can only use some of the most basic internal commands, there's not even EDIT... Please, experts, give me some ideas～～

Floor2　iceboy	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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What do you mean? You don't mean you want to boot DOS on an NTFS partition, do you. If you can get to the prompt, how can there be no FORMAT? Run FORMAT.COM, maybe you forgot to set PATH.

Floor3　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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I'm using a FAT32 installation of XP, so I want to make a dual-boot menu that can boot the MS-DOS boot disk downloaded here. It can't run FORMAT; when I run it, it says bad file name or file not found. Since I'd like to keep it simple, I don't want to use any special tools, I just want to do it by modifying BOOT.INI...

Floor5　iceboy	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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Right, export the DOS DBR to C:\MSDOS.DBR Then add C:\MSDOS.DBR=Microsoft MS-DOS 7.10 to boot.ini Remember to set PATH & make sure FORMAT.COM exists, otherwise... you can't directly run FORMAT.

Floor6　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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I'm a total DOS newbie... could you... please be a bit more detailed? I want to dual-boot the full-function version of MS-DOS 7.1 downloaded from here, so... what exactly should I do?

Floor7　jssyq	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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This is how my dual-boot menu BOOT.INI is written. My system is XP PRO. The key is that you must have the BOOTSECT.DOS file!! timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS C:\="MS-DOS" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Floor8　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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Then... a question... BOOTSECT.DOS Where can I get this file? I want to use it to boot the "Fully Chinese MS-DOS 7.10 (Win98) Boot Disk Version 2.0" downloaded here. Thanks everyone! Thanks!!

Floor9　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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Also, does that mean that after getting this file, I can just put it directly in the root directory of C: and then modify BOOT.INI? Also, how exactly should the PATH mentioned above be set?

Floor10　zl7322	Posted 2003-08-16 00:00
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My dual-boot menu BOOT.INI timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /nodetect c:\bootsect.dos="MS-DOS 7.10" /win95

Floor11　Wengier	Posted 2003-08-16 00:00
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Use the MS-DOS 7.10 installer to generate it automatically... because the contents of the BOOTSECT.DOS file are not fixed, they depend on the actual situation...

Floor12　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-17 00:00
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Expert, does the DOS installation disk overwrite XP's boot information?

Floor13　柳世杀神	Posted 2003-08-17 00:00
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Sorry! Expert! I didn't see the sticky thread! Thanks!! I understand now!!