My motion LE 1600 does not have a floppy or cdrom. It has a usb external HD
and a built in SD reader (with no option in BIOS to boot from the sd card) I
have an antiquated program that must run in ms-dos. It will not function
while windows xp is running, due to windows hogging the com ports. I've set
the BIOS to boot from my WD passport external usb HD, and I copied the dos
boot disk files to the external usb HD. For some reason, it wont boot to dos,
instead it reads:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1
For realtek gigabit ethernet controller
PXE-E61: MEdia test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: exiting PXE ROM
OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

Why will it not boot to dos from my usb HD?

nosushi4u wrote:
> My motion LE 1600 does not have a floppy or cdrom. It has a usb external HD
> and a built in SD reader (with no option in BIOS to boot from the sd card) I
> have an antiquated program that must run in ms-dos. It will not function
> while windows xp is running, due to windows hogging the com ports. I've set
> the BIOS to boot from my WD passport external usb HD, and I copied the dos
> boot disk files to the external usb HD. For some reason, it wont boot to dos,
> instead it reads:
> Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1
> For realtek gigabit ethernet controller
> PXE-E61: MEdia test failure, check cable
> PXE-M0F: exiting PXE ROM
> OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
>
> Why will it not boot to dos from my usb HD?

Did you copy the boot files over or did you run "sys" on the usb drive?

"xTenn" wrote:

> nosushi4u wrote:
> > My motion LE 1600 does not have a floppy or cdrom. It has a usb external HD
> > and a built in SD reader (with no option in BIOS to boot from the sd card) I
> > have an antiquated program that must run in ms-dos. It will not function
> > while windows xp is running, due to windows hogging the com ports. I've set
> > the BIOS to boot from my WD passport external usb HD, and I copied the dos
> > boot disk files to the external usb HD. For some reason, it wont boot to dos,
> > instead it reads:
> > Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1
> > For realtek gigabit ethernet controller
> > PXE-E61: MEdia test failure, check cable
> > PXE-M0F: exiting PXE ROM
> > OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
> >
> > Why will it not boot to dos from my usb HD?
>
> Did you copy the boot files over or did you run "sys" on the usb drive?

I just copied and pasted the contents of the floppy msdos startup disk.
How do I do what youre describing? thx

nosushi4u wrote:
>
> "xTenn" wrote:
>
>> nosushi4u wrote:
>>> My motion LE 1600 does not have a floppy or cdrom. It has a usb external HD
>>> and a built in SD reader (with no option in BIOS to boot from the sd card) I
>>> have an antiquated program that must run in ms-dos. It will not function
>>> while windows xp is running, due to windows hogging the com ports. I've set
>>> the BIOS to boot from my WD passport external usb HD, and I copied the dos
>>> boot disk files to the external usb HD. For some reason, it wont boot to dos,
>>> instead it reads:
>>> Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1
>>> For realtek gigabit ethernet controller
>>> PXE-E61: MEdia test failure, check cable
>>> PXE-M0F: exiting PXE ROM
>>> OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
>>>
>>> Why will it not boot to dos from my usb HD?
>> Did you copy the boot files over or did you run "sys" on the usb drive?
>
> I just copied and pasted the contents of the floppy msdos startup disk.
> How do I do what youre describing? thx


You might not have gotten all the files if you did not attrib them
properly before the move, but sys will do that for you rather
conveniently. Of course there are many other ways of doing this as
well. But a simple copy without taking into account the given boot
files attribs will not work.

More info can be googled or found here:
http://www.computerhope.com/syshlp.htm

"xTenn" wrote:

> nosushi4u wrote:
> >
> > "xTenn" wrote:
> >
> >> nosushi4u wrote:
> >>> My motion LE 1600 does not have a floppy or cdrom. It has a usb external HD
> >>> and a built in SD reader (with no option in BIOS to boot from the sd card) I
> >>> have an antiquated program that must run in ms-dos. It will not function
> >>> while windows xp is running, due to windows hogging the com ports. I've set
> >>> the BIOS to boot from my WD passport external usb HD, and I copied the dos
> >>> boot disk files to the external usb HD. For some reason, it wont boot to dos,
> >>> instead it reads:
> >>> Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1
> >>> For realtek gigabit ethernet controller
> >>> PXE-E61: MEdia test failure, check cable
> >>> PXE-M0F: exiting PXE ROM
> >>> OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
> >>>
> >>> Why will it not boot to dos from my usb HD?
> >> Did you copy the boot files over or did you run "sys" on the usb drive?
> >
> > I just copied and pasted the contents of the floppy msdos startup disk.
> > How do I do what youre describing? thx
>
>
> You might not have gotten all the files if you did not attrib them
> properly before the move, but sys will do that for you rather
> conveniently. Of course there are many other ways of doing this as
> well. But a simple copy without taking into account the given boot
> files attribs will not work.
>
> More info can be googled or found here:
> http://www.computerhope.com/syshlp.htm
>
Very helpful. I'll try it. Thanks very much.