Korotkov Ivan
December 11th 03, 09:47 PM
Hi all,
I want to make my comp dual-bootable with XP and MS-DOS. I created a
partition F: on my harddisk, from DOS it is recognized as C:. Then I changed
BOOT.INI to contain the following string:
[operating systems]
....
C:\="MS-DOS"
I made a MS-DOS boot floppy disk and copied IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM and all
other files neccesary files to F:\ and to F:\DOS.
But how can I create the loader of MS-DOS? I've thought that NTLDR can load
MS-DOS also but it can't. I receive "disk(0)....\BOOTSECT.DOS is missing or
corrupt." message. I looked in MSDN anf found that there must be the
BOOTSECT.DOS file on disk. But how can I make it since I have no MS-DOS
installation disk - I've just copied all files from DOS floppy to F:. Is it
going to work if I read the first sector of bootable DOS floppy and write it
to a new file named BOOTSECT.DOS? Or I should do smth. else?
Thanks,
Ivan
I want to make my comp dual-bootable with XP and MS-DOS. I created a
partition F: on my harddisk, from DOS it is recognized as C:. Then I changed
BOOT.INI to contain the following string:
[operating systems]
....
C:\="MS-DOS"
I made a MS-DOS boot floppy disk and copied IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM and all
other files neccesary files to F:\ and to F:\DOS.
But how can I create the loader of MS-DOS? I've thought that NTLDR can load
MS-DOS also but it can't. I receive "disk(0)....\BOOTSECT.DOS is missing or
corrupt." message. I looked in MSDN anf found that there must be the
BOOTSECT.DOS file on disk. But how can I make it since I have no MS-DOS
installation disk - I've just copied all files from DOS floppy to F:. Is it
going to work if I read the first sector of bootable DOS floppy and write it
to a new file named BOOTSECT.DOS? Or I should do smth. else?
Thanks,
Ivan