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Question

Am having a problem with GAG boot loader

Apr 4, 2014 5:38AM PDT

I purchased an older Pentium 3 system set up for dual
boot (Win 98se and DOS 6.2). I noticed that mouse was
working in Windows but not DOS. Booted to DOS and
altered Confg.sys and Autoexec.bat in an attempt to
load mouse driver to get mouse to work under DOS.
Evidently I made a mistake in one of those files and now
when I boot to DOS it boot loops. But I can't figure out
how to access Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. Tried booting
from a floopy, but GAG appears to be getting in the way
of recognising DOS partition. How can I access the DOS
partition to change these files.?

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Answer
Never needed GAG
Apr 4, 2014 5:42AM PDT

Since we can boot to DOS with just F8 or F5 no multiboot loader was ever needed. However DOS mouse support is well, arcane knowledge. Skip trying that with the configy, autoexecy and just make a batch file. Here I cheated and renamed/copied mouse.com (my mouse used that!) to m.com. Done.
Bob

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I see it documented at link.
Apr 4, 2014 5:48AM PDT