If you have Partition Magic then you should also have Boot Magic in which
case use Boot Magic as your boot manager and install Win Me to one
partition and your preferred flavour of DOS to another and use BM to
select which to boot. Alternatively install Win Me in one partition and
Win 98 or 98SE in another and boot 98/98SE if you want real mode.
--
Mike Maltby



ASTROJAZ wrote:

Thanks for confirming my suspicions about ME. However, if you grant
that Microsoft did NOT screw up, and simply, finally, removed Real
Mode from Win ME, then how do you explain that they put it right
back in, with Win-XP? This newer O/S that followed ME, does have a
start up option to go to Command Prompt, which ME no longer did.
Perhaps it isn't DOS-6, but DOS-8, and maybe it is even no longer
Real Mode - don't know. But I wouldn't even mind booting into ME's
own version of DOS-7 at start up. Unfortunately, there is no way to
turn off ME and occasionally get into a full DOS mode.

I assume one of the three "variations" you mention, is using
Partition Magic's Boot Manager - which as I said, does not solve the
problem, since it simply starts up ME and leaves it upto that O/S to
multiboot, which it can't. Further, it may be that other so-called
boot managers you mention, do the same thing as PM - don't know. I
did the Google thing several times, and it wasn't "my firiend" as you
suggest, since I spent hours on searching for the "hack" you mention,
with no more luck than the Knowledge Base here. Perhaps you can point
me to a specific site, or at least what search string you used to
find the hacks you mentioned, to get ME to boot DOS.