How to boot into WinXP from DOS?

[Á÷À˵ÄË«Óã]

I have two OSsne is DOS in C,another is WinXP in D.
Now I want to boot to WinXP from DOS by a command.
Is there any tool can do it?
Any reply is appreciated!

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[Wesley Vogel]

You can't boot XP from DOS.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Sleepless in Seattle]

CTRL-ALT-DEL and use a boot manager such as BING
http://www.tucows.com/preview/214244.html or XP's boot manager.

 

[Á÷À˵ÄË«Óã]

My intention is:
Firstly,I want to boot into DOS and execute a command.
Then boot into WinXP and execute another command.
At last shutdown the computer.
I want to do this automatically by computer itself.
Can I realize it by any tool?


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[Al Dykes]

My intention is:
Firstly,I want to boot into DOS and execute a command.
Then boot into WinXP and execute another command.
At last shutdown the computer.
I want to do this automatically by computer itself.
Can I realize it by any tool?

There's gotta be a dusty old DOS shareware utility to be able to cause
a CTRL-ALT-DEL from a BAT file. This assumes you find one. Look in
the old simtel archives; http://www.eunet.bg/simtel.net/msdos.html

Install DOS and XP so that boot.ini has two entries; one to boot to
DOS as a default and have XP as a second choice.

Make two copies of this file; call them bootDOS.ini and bootXP.ini

Edit each of them with a text editor so that bootDOS.ini has DOS as
the default OS and bootXP.ini has XP as the default OS. The format is
obvious.

Boot into dos and write an autoexec.bat script that copies boot.XP
to boot.ini and reboots.

Boot into XP and write a startup script that copies bootDOS.ini to
boot.ini and reboots.

This G*g awfull mess will flipflop between DOS and XP.

OR

You could join the 21st century and buy a copy of VMware or Microsoft
Virtual Machine and run DOS as a virtual machine under XP.

What are you trying to do in DOS ?

 

[Steve N.]

My intention is:
Firstly,I want to boot into DOS and execute a command.

What command?

Then boot into WinXP and execute another command.

What command?

At last shutdown the computer.
I want to do this automatically by computer itself.
Why?

Can I realize it by any tool?

Possibly, by a combination of tools.

Be specific; what do you hope to accomplish and why? The commands
matter. The processes matter. The desired outcome matters.

Steve

 

[Galen]

In Al Dykes <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

There's gotta be a dusty old DOS shareware utility to be able to cause
a CTRL-ALT-DEL from a BAT file. This assumes you find one. Look in
the old simtel archives; http://www.eunet.bg/simtel.net/msdos.html

Install DOS and XP so that boot.ini has two entries; one to boot to
DOS as a default and have XP as a second choice.

Make two copies of this file; call them bootDOS.ini and bootXP.ini

Edit each of them with a text editor so that bootDOS.ini has DOS as
the default OS and bootXP.ini has XP as the default OS. The format is
obvious.

Boot into dos and write an autoexec.bat script that copies boot.XP
to boot.ini and reboots.

Boot into XP and write a startup script that copies bootDOS.ini to
boot.ini and reboots.

This G*g awfull mess will flipflop between DOS and XP.

OR

You could join the 21st century and buy a copy of VMware or Microsoft
Virtual Machine and run DOS as a virtual machine under XP.

What are you trying to do in DOS ?

I read your reply. I re-read it. I applied logic. It would work. However?
It's insane. I like it. Just thought I'd add my thoughts on that answer at
least. That's as crazy as some of the most obtuse work-arounds I've come
across in a long time. I like it. Would have been true official geekness if
you'd actually written ini files but was beautiful none the less.

Galen

 

[Richard Urban]

NO!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Bill Bradshaw]

This G*g awfull mess will flipflop between DOS and XP.

OR

You could join the 21st century and buy a copy of VMware or Microsoft
Virtual Machine and run DOS as a virtual machine under XP.

Or use the free DosBox.

 

[Rock]

I have two OSsne is DOS in C,another is WinXP in D.
Now I want to boot to WinXP from DOS by a command.
Is there any tool can do it?
Any reply is appreciated!

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