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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!leehart
- From: leehart@microsoft.com (Lee Hart)
- Subject: Re: Loading device drivers before Flexboot
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.122651.4382@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 12:26:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- Keywords: NT
- References: <1992Sep10.174706.9513@utdallas.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep10.174706.9513@utdallas.edu>, paschall@utdallas.edu (Dwayne Paschall) writes:
- > I have a couple of questions that someone may have solutions. I need to
- > load a couple of device drivers before the Flexboot load NT (or DOS). I
- > tried putting them in config.nt and autoexec.nt. Soem of them loaded,
- > but the last one or two did not (this also prevented Flexboot from loading).
- >
- > Does anyone have suggestions for work-arounds (other than "ask the
- > Compu$erve forum")?
- > Let me know direct if you do!!
-
- Let me guess what you are really trying to do: You have either a strange
- partitioning scheme that requires a device driver, or you are using a
- disk compression utility to compress your data on your drive. You want to
- put Windows NT on this partition. At this time, this will not work.
-
- NTLDR (and NTDETECT.COM) are not MS-Dos apps - they are 'BIOS' apps, since
- the only APIs they call are the BIOS APIs, to read from the disk, query
- the system, etc. As a result, they do not support device drivers, with
- the exception of NTBOOTDD.SYS, which is the SCSI miniport driver for
- your SCSI card (this file is optional in most cases)
-
- And yes, Compuserve is the best place to get support at this time.
-
- Lee
- I can't always speak for myself; how could I speak for Microsoft?
-