Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 1996 11:12:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Eric Hoeltzel <> | Subject | Re: Boot Ideas, (Was Re:Boot messages.) |
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On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Jacob Praamsma wrote:
> Among the 350 or so e-mail messages I got today :< > Someone wrote me that I they had read that ms-dos (Win95) > stores it's boot screen in a file that's partially true! But the fact is, > they tricked you! > > What happens is that after MS-DOS finds the partitons and > mounts them (yes it does do that). It scans the root directory > of all assigned drives, aside from A: and B:, for a file called Logo.sys > this is a custom boot-image. However, if you format your hard drive > and leave nothing on it, then reboot your system. You'll find that Windows > still displays "Starting Windows 95" as a graphic! Hence it is inside IO.SYS > and since it is 39K or so that is why IO.SYS is 250K
Well, for what it is worth, when I got my first copy of 95, I made a hdimage with a 95 boot disk for my dosemu setup. Then I make a symlink win96 --> dos so that I could type 'win95' from my bash prompt. This floored a few people when I casually typed 'win95' then grumbled a bit about it being so slow and switched away from it to X before it dropped the graphic and went to a C: prompt. Hehe! This one high school teacher couldn't believe his eyes, stood there gaping in disbelief...
Eric Hoeltzel
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