Re: stuck in DOS

Patel, Ajay (axp@roadnet.ups.com)
Thu, 12 Jan 95 12:22 PST

> Subject: stuck in DOS
>
> Hi all,
>
> Continuing with my problems posted yesterday getting my Ace pcmcia card
> (which I believe is made by SunDisk) to work, if I add the line
> `shell=a:\command.com' to my config.sys, the config.sys file seems to
> execute just fine... But then it comes up with a filesystem prompt, B>
> (that's the prompt, not another ascii face :-), and doesn't go on to the
> autoexec.bat (This only occurs when I load the acedrv.sys device driver)
.
>
> Q:
> Anyone seen anything like this, or know how I can force it to execute
> autoexec.bat ?

well , I had to load new drivers for my Sundisk flash card so that it's
will prevent some errors, I ended up putting autoexec.bat & config.sys on
my b:\ directory. (I also had the shell=a:\command.com /p) in my config.sys
file. The first time, I didn't include the shell command, and when it
tried to load command.com it couldn't find it, and got me "stuck in dos".
Well I had to do a hard reset (A-B button), and this deletes EVERYTHING you
put on drive b:, and resets it as if you just bought it from the store.
Ugh. but I keep backups, so recovering was rather quick.
good luck -
ajay

> Q:
> Is there state information in the Zoomer that is _not_ re-initialized by
> an A-B-reset (I _did_ have this working before...) ?