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Select weather to boot from floppy or from hard disk

Asked by dbrckovi in MS DOS

Tags: boot

Hi!

I have a DOS boot disk created by formating it with /S paramemter.
When I restart the computer with this floppy inserted, I'd like to have two options:
 - to continue booting from floppy
 - to boot from hard disk (like it would normaly boot if floppy wasn't inserted)

I have seen few boot CD's which provide this option. For example Win98 SE setup CD literaly displays two options like I described, and WinXP waits for few seconds for user to press a key. If any key  was pressed it boots from CD, otherwise it boots from HD.

How can I do something like that?

Notes:
If it makes any difference; I'm actualy using DOS Boot CD which I've created by burning floppy image to it with Nero.

Here is the contents of Config.sys and Autoexec.bat; in case this is done by modifying those files:
---------CONFIG.SYS------------------------
files=20
buffers=30
lastdrive=z
break=off
dos=high,umb
device=HIMEM.EXE        
device=EMM386.EXE
DEVICE=VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:OEMCD001

----------AUTOEXEC.BAT------------------
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
SET PATH=A:\

SET SNDSCAPE=C:\DOS\EAPCI
SET BLASTER=a220 i5 d1 t2

MODE CON:RATE=32,DELAY=1
C:\DOS\EAPCI\APINIT
SMARTDRV 8192

DOSKEY /INSERT
MSCDEX /D:OEMCD001 /L:K /M:8
C:\DOS\NTFS5\NTFSPRO
CTMOUSE /R2
-------------------------------------------------------

Thanks!
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