Re: Grub and win98 boot record
----- Original Message -----
From: "paul" <paul@mackinney.net>
To: "David P James" <dpjames@rogers.com>
Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Grub and win98 boot record
> The sys command will install msdos.sys, io.sys, and command.com to the
> partition. It will not fix the mbr and it will mess up the win98
> install. It's intended to make bootable floppies, if you do it to the C:
> drive then the C: drive will only boot into the command prompt & you'll
> have to reinstall windows unless you know some tricks.
IIRC, the 'trick' isn't all that 'tricky'. After running 'sys c:', just
edit MSDOS.SYS and change BootGUI = 0 to BootGUI = 1
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