bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) (05/11/91)
I have a slight problem. I need to write a routine (preferably in
Pascal) that will reboot a machine. The second part to this problem is
that on reboot, I need to select my config.sys file. The computer in
question needs to have one configuration for PLATO use, and another for
Novell use. Cant it be done? How???
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Carlos Dragonslayer Butler| "People often condescend
bucacs@ux1.ctseiu.edu | what they fail to comprehend.
Lord of House | Ignorance makes life easier.
| Peace, knowledge, love and happiness." sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) (05/11/91)
In article <1991May10.202806.18512@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes: > > I have a slight problem. I need to write a routine (preferably in >Pascal) that will reboot a machine. The second part to this problem is >that on reboot, I need to select my config.sys file. The computer in >question needs to have one configuration for PLATO use, and another for >Novell use. Cant it be done? How??? >-- > Carlos Dragonslayer Butler| "People often condescend > bucacs@ux1.ctseiu.edu | what they fail to comprehend. > Lord of House | Ignorance makes life easier. > | Peace, knowledge, love and happiness." You can do a reboot with the following: Using a simple ASCII text editor (VDE or QEDIT) write the following debug script. NOTE: line numbers are for reference DO NOT TYPE THE LINE NUMBERS (or the following colons) IN YOUR FILE!! 1: a 100 2: mov ax,40 3: mov ds,ax 4: mov ax,1234 5: mov [0072],ax 6: jmp f000:e05b 7: 8: r cx 9: 10 10: n reset.com 11: w 12: q NOTE: Be sure that line 7: is blank. Proof read the script very carefully. Save it as RESET.SCR. Now comes the fun part. Be sure that DEBUG (its usually found in your /DOS subdirectory) is in your PATH. Then at the prompt type: c:\> debug < reset.scr if everything works properly (and it should if you typed the script properly :-)) you will find a little program named RESET.COM in your directory. RESET.COM is a little program that will perform a warm boot on your machine and can be used in a batch file. I use it to quickly and easily reconfigure my machine (286 w/ 2.5Mb RAM) from running in a DOS environment with a 1.5Mb cache in extended memory and .5Mb expanded memory left open for Quattro Pro and WordPerfect, etc. to an evironment for running WINDOWS 3.0 (yeah, I actually run WINDOWS on a 286...no flames please! :-)) I have created a subdirectory on my harddrive called /SYS in which I have put config and autoexec files designed for each environment (and a few other batch files that need to be changed for each environment) and given them an extention that identifies them. ex. CONFIG.DOS, CONFIG.WIN, AUTOEXEC.DOS, AUTOEXEC.WIN etc. In my root directory I have put the following two batch files: STARTDOS.BAT @ECHO OFF REM FOR STARTING DOS ENVIRONMENT COPY C:\SYS\CONFIG.DOS C:\CONFIG.SYS COPY C:\SYS\AUTOEXEC.DOS C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\BIN\RESET.COM REM ^^^^^^^^^ THE FILE YOU JUST CREATED and STARTWIN.BAT @ECHO OFF REM FOR STARTING WINDOWS COPY C:\SYS\CONFIG.WIN C:\CONFIG.SYS COPY C:\SYS\AUTOEXEC.WIN C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\BIN\RESET.COM I hope this helps Steve -- -------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Guerke, Coord. Computer Resources sguerke@brahms.udel.edu University of Delaware Parallel Program stephen.guerke@mvs.udel.edu Georgetown, DE 19947 ILV20078@UDELVM.UDEL.EDU
kai@kaiki.toppoint.de (Kai Voelcker) (05/14/91)
sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) writes: > In article <1991May10.202806.18512@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (C > > > > I have a slight problem. I need to write a routine (preferably in > >Pascal) that will reboot a machine. Hi, everything Stephen Guerke wrote in his follow-up works fine. And here is a small code for use inside pascal: Procedure WarmBoot; INLINE( { MOV AX,0040h } $B8/$40/$00 { MOV ES,AX } /$8E/$C0 { MOV Word Ptr ES:[0072h],1234h } /$26/$C7/$06/$72/$00/$34/$12 { MOV AX,0F000h } /$B8/$00/$F0 { PUSH AX } /$50 { MOV AX,0FFF0h } /$B8/$F0/$FF { PUSH AX } /$50 { RETF } /$CB ) ; Procedure ColdBoot; INLINE( { MOV AX,0F000h } $B8/$00/$F0 { PUSH AX } /$50 { MOV AX,0FFF0h } /$B8/$F0/$FF { PUSH AX } /$50 { RETF } /$CB ) ; _________________________________________________________________ | Kai Voelcker, Kappelner Str. 18, D-2300 Kiel 1, +49 431 335605 | | interests: masm, c, pascal; OR Algorithms | | >>> polite notice: I have to pay for incoming mail. Thanks <<< | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
campbell@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Trevor George Campbell CC361) (05/22/91)
kai@kaiki.toppoint.de (Kai Voelcker) writes: >sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) writes: >> In article <1991May10.202806.18512@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> bucacs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (C >> > >> > I have a slight problem. I need to write a routine (preferably in >> >Pascal) that will reboot a machine. >Hi, >everything Stephen Guerke wrote in his follow-up works fine. And here is a >small code for use inside pascal: >Procedure WarmBoot; > INLINE( >Procedure ColdBoot; > INLINE( > { MOV AX,0F000h } $B8/$00/$F0 > { PUSH AX } /$50 > { MOV AX,0FFF0h } /$B8/$F0/$FF > { PUSH AX } /$50 > { RETF } /$CB ) ; This code seems longer than reqd. to me. I created a .com file with debug a total of 16 bytes for a warm boot, and 5 for a cold boot. Under TP you just need to do a jmp ffff:0000 for a cold boot. naturally this needs to be converted to inline but i don't have the code on me for this, will bring it tomorrow and post if any interest.... . -- Trevor alias <**<TOMCAT>**>