Command: F5 button
Ignores CONFIG.SYS / FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT / FDAUTO.BAT
while booting up the system.
Syntax:
- none -
Options:
- none -
Comments:
If you press "F5" while booting up the system, CONFIG.SYS /
FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT / FDAUTO.BAT commands are ignored.
This is helpful if you have a driver installed which crashes
while booting up the system as you can boot up without any driver
or batch commands and fix bugs in CONFIG.SYS / FDCONFIG.SYS or
AUTOEXEC.BAT / FDAUTO.BAT.
F5 is a command internal to kernel.sys and needs no other file
in order to work.
Examples:
FreeDOS crashes while executing config.sys / autoexec.bat every
time. You have no chance to change something as this happens at
each bootup.
Press F5 while booting (kernel message is shown), then config.sys
and autoexec.bat are ignored, the machine boots and you can fix the
problem by editing these files.
See also:
autoexec.bat/fdauto.bat
config.sys/fdconfig.sys
echo
edit
edlin
F8
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