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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> > Your rxvt never has a cursor???  Even when running solo?
> > Something is weird there.  Could be a milder form of the
> > Xvesa clash.  
> 
> I have always had a problem when I boot linux from win98 where I have no 
> cursor
> at all in X, and network doesn't work, etc.  I get a load of IRQ conflicts
> and other nasties reported when I boot up.

Thanks for the instructions.  If booting without anything in autoexec.bat 
and config.sys solves any of the problems that I am still having 
(microcom? ) I will make such a menu, but I would like to be able to use 
all the BLs after booting into regular DOS and using programs there, some 
of which require autoexec.bat and config.sys.  

A couple of problems seem to go away after rebooting a few times.  Xvesa 
works despite himem.sys and emm386.exe (Win98).  

I have decided not to put Windows on the same computer with anything else.  
We have about 20 computers and can switch monitors between three on one 
desk.  

> 
> You can use a boot menu in dos 6.0+.
> 
> The secret is to define a bunch of menu items in config.sys and equivalent
> commands in autoexec.bat.
> 
> 1) Config.sys: add this at the top:
> 
> [menu]
> menuitem=DOS, Boot to DOS
> menuitem=BL3, Boot to BasicLinux 3
> menudefault=DOS, 5
> 
> [BL3]
> 
> [DOS]
> 
> 
> Autoexec.bat:
> 
> Add this to the top of autoexec.bat
> 
> goto %CONFIG%
> 
> :BL3
> cd C:\baslin
> boot
> 
> :DOS
> 
> 
> How this works:
> 
> config.sys sets up a menu with two items: DOS and BL3.  If you don't press
> anything it goes to DOS after 5 seconds (the menudefault line).
> 
> There are then blocks of drivers, etc to load under [BL3] and [DOS] for each
> option.  Put your normal DOS drivers under [DOS] and nothing under [BL3].
> 
> autoexec.bat sets up to labels (:BL3 and :DOS).  The goto %CONFIG% line 
> goes to
> whichever is chosen in the menu - i.e. if you choose DOS, it jumps over the
> lines to boot BL3.
> 
> 
> Further details of this are available at 
> http://www.geocities.com/politalk/dos/bootmenu.htm.  You can also do other 
> funky things like setting colors, etc.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ian
> 
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