Friday, February 22, 2008

Creating a Boot Menu

Go to the DOS prompt.
  1. Type: ATTRIB MSDOS.SYS -r -a -h -s
  2. Edit MSDOS.SYS, adding the following lines under [Options]
    • BootGUI=1 (If you have it set to 0)
    • BootMenu=1
    • BootMenuDefault=5 (1=GUI 5or6=DOS Prompt)
    • BootMulti=1 (Allows you to boot to your old Operating System)
    • BootMenuDelay=2 (# of seconds before default is chosen)
  3. Type Alt-F then S to save your file.
  4. Close the editor
  5. Type: ATTRIB MSDOS.SYS +r +a +h +s
  6. Reboot.

Note: BootGUI needs to be set to 1
if you have the menu running, otherwise even if you select 1 (Normal), it will not go to the GUI.

P.S. Supposedly Drvspace=0 nd Dblspace=0 under the Options section saves on RAM, but I haven't been able to confirm this.

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