ARCHIVED: In DOS 6.0 and 6.2, what should I do if I've messed up my CONFIG.SYS file and can't boot?
In DOS 6.0 and 6.2, you can bypass your CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files by pressing F5
immediately
after seeing the "Starting MS-DOS" message on the screen.
You can also press F8
, which will cause DOS 6 to ask, for
each line in the CONFIG.SYS
file, whether you want to run
it. It will then ask you whether you want to run
AUTOEXEC.BAT
(the whole batch file in 6.0, but in 6.2 you
can run one line at a time). This would allow you to boot with some,
but not all, lines of your CONFIG.SYS
file, and all, some, or
none of your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file.
Finally, DOS 6 allows you to create "multiple boot" configurations in
the CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files. See
your manual for details.
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