Re: [mu WIN98] Win98 Installation

From: jeremy@visi.com
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 21:22:33 CET


On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:57:24PM +0000, Michele Andreoli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:20:39AM -0600, jeremy@visi.com nicely wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 07:50:26AM +0000, Michele Andreoli wrote:
> > > I' over this point: win98 boot properly. I see this stage:
> > >
> > > 1) autoexec.bat stuff
> > > 2) the big screen with Windows logo
> > > 3) something appairs authentication screen
> > > 4) system block
> > >
> > > I also tried removing system.dat and user.dat as suggest, but no
> > > success.
> >
> > Can you boot into safe mode? (press f8 at boot)
> >
> > If you can boot into safe mode, maybe going into the system control
> > panel, and removing EVERYTHING would then give you a blank slate
> > with which to rebuild your system.
>
>
> Obviously, it is not clear that: win98 block after 0.1 micro-seconds,
> after showing the Windows98 logo!

Well, as soon as it's booting, start pressing f8 -- before the autoexec.bat
stuff loads (why are you loading anything in the autoexec.bat, anyway?
win9x pretty much eliminates the need for entries in there).

Then you'll get a boot selection menu.

Jeremy

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