The innards of IO.SYS
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and MSDOS.SYS
.. IO.SYS ..
A list of error messages, recognized names and commmands, etc, found as
text within IO.SYS. IO.SYS remains resident in lower memory. This will give
you some idea of what it does. As you can see, most of it involves things
specific to the MS Operating System.
- MS DOS Version 6 (C)Copyright 1981-1994 Microsoft Corp
- Non-System disk or disk error
- Replace and press any key when ready
- CON
- AUX
- PRN
- CLOCK$
- COM1
- LPT1
- LPT2
- LPT3
- COM2
- COM3
- COM4
- FAT12
- FAT16
- NO NAME
- Insert diskette for drive A: and press any key when ready
- Internal stack overflow
- System halted
- HMA not available: Loading DOS low
- Fatal Error: Cannot allocate Memory for DOS
- VDISK V3.3
- Memory allocation error $2
- NOUMB
- PROTMAN
- DBLSPACE.BIN
- DRVSPACE.BIN
- DRVSPACE.INI
- DBLSBIN
- CONFIG.SYS
- COUNTRY.SYS
- COMMAND.COM
- MSDOS /P
- DOS /P
- CONFIG
- COMMON
- BREAK
- BUFFERS
- COMMENT
- COUNTRY
- DEVICE
- DEVICEHIGH
- DRIVPARM
- FCBS
- FILES
- INCLUDE
- INSTALL
- INSTALLHIGH
- LASTDRIVE
- SUBMENU
- MENUCOLOR
- MENUDEFAULT
- MENUITEM
- MULTITRACK
- NUMLOCK
- SHELLS
- STACKS
- SWITCHES
- Unrecognized command in CONFIG.SYS
- Bad command or parameters - $
- Sector size too large in file $
- Bad or missing $Command Interpreter
- Invalid country code or code page
- Error in COUNTRY command
- Insufficient memory for COUNTRY.SYS file
- Configuration too large for memory
- Too many block devices
- Invalid STACK parameters
- Incorrect order in CONFIG.SYS line
- STARTING MS-DOS...
- Press any key to continue . . .
- MS-DOS is bypassing your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
- MS-DOS will prompt you to confirm each CONFIG.SYS command.
- MS-DOS 6.22 Startup Menu
- Enter a choice:
- F5=Bypass startup files
- F8=Confirm each line of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
- Time remaining:
- Enter correct name of Command Interpreter (eg, C: COMMAND.COM)
- Process AUTOEXEC.BAT
- WARNING! Logical drives past Z: exist and will be ignored
- Wrong DBLSPACE.BIN version
.. MSDOS.SYS ..
A list of error messages, recognized names and commmands, etc, found
within MSDOS.SYS.
- DMS DOS Version 6 (C)Copyright 1981-1994 Microsoft Corp Licensed
Material
- Divide overflow
- You must have the file WINA20.386 in the root of your boot drive to
run Windows in Enhanced Mode
- wina20.386
- COUNTRY.SYS
- A20 Hardware Error
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