Cannot boot with boot/startup disk, but then boot to Windows

[scallosa]

HD stopped working over the weekend, ie,
msg "Boot disk is not valid" and could not read in DOS. Fdisk and formatted, installed Windows 98.
Was getting msg about VFAT init failed and registry inop, so
followed advice in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 178947:
Err Msg: Registry File Was Not Found. Registry Services May
be inoperative...
Advises tomodify the msdos.sys file on the floppy.
Now when it boots, I get the message
"EZBIOS startup continues..."
but it just hangs. But when I insert the boot disk, with the modified msdos.sys, it goes to the screen where it asks if I want CD ROM support or not, just like it was going to boot into DOS mode, but then boots directly into Windows 98, and HD is accessible and Windows works fine.
How can I get the system to boot directly from the HD without the floppy?
Thanks.

 

[micker377]

What did the article say to modify? The "Ezebios" is an "overlay" which allows the older computer bios to see larger harddrives. How old is the computer and what is the size of the harddrive?

 

[pudda]

With EZBios hit the Control key for the option to boot to the drive of your choice- C for C: (hdd) or A for A: (floppy)...

The test continues...

 

[scallosa]

Installed Broderbund Print Master, and for some reason now it will boot only to Safe Mode. When I try to boot into Normal Mode, it just hangs...

 

[TekTippy4U]

more probs?...ever fix ezbios yet?

printers -
check for entries in Wini.ini
[Windows]
load=
run=
and add a semi colon after the = sign
load=;

TT4U

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