## Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media

The Linux/DOS recovery environment can be used to boot your computer into Linux or PTS DOS to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes. It also has the PTS DOS safe mode, which may help in a number of non-standard situations such as interfering hardware settings or serious problems on the hardware level. In this case, only basic files and drivers (such as hard disk drivers, a monitor driver, and a keyboard driver) will be loaded.

### Startup

To start working with the Linux/DOS recovery environment, please take the following steps:

1. Start up the computer from our Linux/DOS recovery media.

| Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare our recovery environment either on a CD/DVD disc or a thumb drive. To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on-board BIOS is set up to boot from CD/USB first.

2. Launch a boot mode you need (Normal, Safe, Low-Graphics Safe) in the Boot menu.

| By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period.

3. Click on the required operation to start. Hints on the selected at the moment item will help you make the right choice.

4. Consult the help system by pressing ALT+F1 to know more on the subject.

### Boot menu

The Boot menu contains the following commands:

· Normal Mode. Boot into the Linux normal mode. This mode uses the full set of drivers (recommended);

· Safe Mode. Boot into the PTS DOS mode. This mode can be used as an alternative of the Linux normal mode if it fails to work properly;

· Low-Graphics Safe Mode. Boot into the PTS DOS safe mode. In this case, only the minimal set of drivers will be included, like hard disk, monitor, and keyboard drivers. This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu;

· Floppy Disk. Reboot the computer from a system floppy disk;

· Hard Disk 0. Boot from the primary hard disk;

· Find OS(s) on your hard disks. The program will scan hard disks of your computer to find any bootable operating system.

To move within the menu, please use the arrow keys of the computer keyboard.

| While working with the recovery environment you might experience some inconvenience caused by possible video artifacts. It is just a result of changing video modes and in no way will affect the program functionality. If this is the case, please wait a bit and everything will be OK.

#### Normal Mode

When the Normal mode is selected, the Linux launch menu appears:

· Partition Manager (enables to run wizards and dialogs, to specify program settings, to visualize the operating environment and the hard disk configuration);

· Express Resize Wizard (enables to increase free space on one partition by up-taking the unused space of an adjacent partition);

· Restore Wizard (allows restoring hard disks and partitions);

· File Transfer Wizard (allows coping files/folders to another disk or a partition as well as recording them to CD/DVD);

· Boot Corrector (helps to correct the Windows System Registry without Windows being loaded);

· Network Configurator (enables to establish a network connection under Linux);

| If you are going to use network resources, first launch the Network Configuration Wizard to establish a network connection.

· Log Saver (helps to collect and send the necessary log files to the Technical Support);

· Eject CD/DVD;

· Reboot the computer;

· Power off the computer.

To move within the menu, please use the arrow keys of the computer keyboard.

#### Safe Mode

When the Safe mode is selected, the PTS DOS launch menu appears. It has nearly the same functionality as for the Normal mode except for the Network Configurator and Log Saver commands. Besides due to certain limitations of the PTS DOS environment, there is no possibility to burn CD/DVD discs.

#### Low Graphics Safe Mode

When the Low Graphics mode is selected, the PTS DOS launch menu appears. It has the same functionality and looks similar to the Safe mode but graphically simpler.