North Star DIMENSION Service Manual page 64

TROUBLESHOOTING
Boot Problems (cont.)
Symptom Explanation Solution
(continued)
Note: Never have more than one user signed on or
try to run applications when using this type of boot
procedure. After signing on:
- Repair the problem partition.
- Perform a fixed disk boot.
o COMMAND. COM is always read from drive C when
using DOS versions 1.2.0 and later . If this file is
duplicated on drive D, it is ignored . The system
selects drive D after loading COMMAND.COM from
drive C and executes the AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS from drive D if they are there. (If
they aren ' t there, it gets them from C.)
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