Start windows98 from command prompt

[Nosferatu]

Hey!
Can anybody tell me how one can start win98 after using a boot disk? I thought it would be as simple as booting from the disk and then type win in the windows directory.
It started, ideed, but soon I got a blue screen announcing me that VFAT could not be started. Are there any command line arguments I should pass?

Thanks in advance! [red]Nosferatu[/red]
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[Mulga]

It usually will not work from a boot disk unless it is a proper Win 98 rescue disk. This is because various things have to be loaded before Windows starts and plain boot disks do not do this. You can make a rescue disk from within Windows 98, but offhand I can't remember just where (I am on XP) or download one from bootdisk.com All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[wolluf]

I don't think you can start win98 after using a boot disk - there's just not enough room on the boot disk for the necessary drivers etc even for a safe mode boot.

(But I'd be very pleased to be proved wrong!)

PS. Not relevant, but I did manage to put a copy of win95 on an LS120 superfloppy once - that booted windows (albeit very slowly)

 

[edfair]

You probably could do it by using drivers off the hard drive but it will be a daunting task.
Start up in a bootlog mode then take a look at bootlog.txt to see what windows normally loads. Ed Fair
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[flashtek]

win 98 wont start from dos.

 

[Nosferatu]

The thing is that I am trying to have on a second hard-drive a dual boot, win98 and Linux and the only way I can do this is with system disks. When installed single, Win98 boots, but when Linux is added, it just refuses to go. To boot, I am disabling the primary hard-drive from BIOS. But, I'll try different approaches on installing the 2 OSs. Thanks for your posts. [red]Nosferatu[/red]
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There's no such thing as free meal...
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[wolluf]

There should be no problem here - lilo (linux's boot manager) will boot win98. But I'd suggest a 3rd party boot manager - I use the one at

http://www.boot-us.com,

which is free for personal use (easy to set up and use).