Is it possible to boot into ms-dos using the hard drive by copying the contents of a windows startup disk and putting them on the hard drive then altering boot.ini to be able to select msdos on the other partition on a dual boot with an ntfs formated windows xp drive. I have tried this and all that was happening was after selecting ms-dos the screen was going black and the computer was restarting or it was asking for the location of hal.dll in the system32 directory (whick is not requested from the ms-dos floppy disk) and refusing to start without it. All I want to do is a minimal boot on a computer without a floppy drive so I can upgrade the bios.
Thanks for any ideas
