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Number   :  266
Date     :  2001-06-22
Author   :  Chaz Cone
Subject  :  Re: Monday - would not boot with 2 C drives in computer
Size(KB) :  1


Or, you can just hit  and you'll see the DOS lines....

Chaz

At 03:22 PM 6/21/2001, you wrote:
>Let me add to what Barry said.
>
>In Win9x, when you see the Cloud, it is Microsoft's trick to
>hide the underlying DOS activities. You can turn off the
>Cloud's display and keep the DOS screen (sometimes it shows
>other pertinent error message which users normally miss
>because of the Cloud display). To do so, Go to the
>editor (in DOS) and modify the MSDOS.SYS file (an ascii file
>with hidden/readonly/system flags set so you need to run
>
> ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\MSDOS.SYS
>
>Inside MSDOS.SYS, set
>
>logo=0 (to remove the logo display)
>
>Just by setting the logo=0 you may see a bunch of error message
>on the screen.
>
>Also, inside MSDOS.SYS set
>
>BootMenu=1
>BootMenuDelay=10
>
>This will give you the 10-second menu display where
>you may choose a non-standard option such as
>Step-by-step-confirmation, Safe-Mode, Command Prompt-Only, etc.
>
>If you see only one-line MSDOS.SYS file, let me know you need
>a much bigger MSDOS.SYS file for a system disk on a hard disk.
>
>Also, the activation of BOOTLOG.TXT file may also help you
>determine which device driver fails.
>
>Kan Yabumoto
>==================================================================
>At 2001-06-21 13:54, Barry wrote:
>
> > >Never would it boot past the win98 screen with the clouds.
> > >
> >
> >Just so you know, this is a very important piece of information
> >which you left out. The answers would have been quite different.
> >Getting "clouds" means the drive is good, hooked up, addressed
> >properly, the boot has started, etc...
> >
> >Barry
>==================================================================
>
>
>
>
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