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| Thread ID: 75163 | 2006-12-18 20:34:00 | Problem booting into DOS: bad GRUB! | Jamezo (1062) | Press F1 |
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| 507746 | 2006-12-18 20:34:00 | I need to boot to DOS to flash my router, I am trying to do this with a Windows 95 install CD. Even when the CD drive is the only thing in the boot sequence, after the BIOS shows "Boot from CD/DVD...", it just loads the GRUB menu. What shalt I do? |
Jamezo (1062) | ||
| 507747 | 2006-12-18 20:40:00 | Don't u have to make a bootable floppy or something to boot into DOS? Either make a bootable system floppy or USB flash drive, if your system can boot from USB devices. Then change it to the bootdisk in the BIOS, then it'll boot into DOS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 507748 | 2006-12-18 20:57:00 | No floppy drive. I believe the point is, no matter what bootable media attempts to load, GRUB somehow bypasses it. Or something... |
Jamezo (1062) | ||
| 507749 | 2006-12-18 21:01:00 | Oh well, you'll have to make something bootable besides the cd, or floppy . Buy a USB flash drive, and format it on a mates system, so its a system bootable disk . Thats if your system supports booting from USB removable devices . Don't think u can do anything else . You could use Winamge which creates a virtual cd/floppy . I had to do this, coz I dont have a floppy on these either . And I wanted to make a bootable USB flash drive . Which in the end worked, even tho I dont have a floppy . I went to Bootdisk (www . bootdisk . com) got the 98 bootdisk zip file . Unzipped it, made a virtual floppy using Winimage . Then all I had to do was copy the unzipped files to the USB flash drive (after I formatted it), and voila it was bootable . But whether Winimage will still do this when its unregistered I dont know . It should do . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 507750 | 2006-12-18 21:58:00 | No floppy drive. I believe the point is, no matter what bootable media attempts to load, GRUB somehow bypasses it. Or something... Unplug your IDE cable to the hard drive. That will stop it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 507751 | 2006-12-19 00:52:00 | Ok, new strategy, I am using a different machine that does have a floppy drive. New problem: I need a boot floppy for windows 2000 so I can read the NTFS drive. Anybody know a good one? | Jamezo (1062) | ||
| 507752 | 2006-12-19 01:04:00 | Why don't u put the exe file on the floppy if it fits?? It'll be easier than trying to run it off a NTFS hdd. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 507753 | 2006-12-19 01:35:00 | Because it doesn't fit. Also, I can't use a bootable USB flash drive because the router flashing procedure requires that no other USB devices be connected. So I still need a bootable floppy image that has NTFS access and a command line. |
Jamezo (1062) | ||
| 507754 | 2006-12-19 01:46:00 | Well, try something from here (www.bootdisk.com) Other than that, there's not much else u can do. Why they make something DOS only when it doesn't even fit on a floppy is pretty hopeless don't u think. Or do this (support.microsoft.com) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 507755 | 2006-12-19 01:52:00 | 95 install cdrom is not bootable thats why its falling into grub use nero or somthing like that to make a bootable cdrom |
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