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In <1992Aug27.182935.26156@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

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>One more time - EMM386.SYS loads _by itself_, without config.sys entry, but
>I can't find out why, although I assume it's because of the SSTOR drives.. I
>can't get rid of it...

>(I may have to wipe the disk and reboot with QEMM.SYS, and THEN try using
>SSTOR, but it's more work than I want to take on right now.)

I don't believe that EMM386.SYS will load without something telling it to.
You may be a bit confused with the DR-DOS boot process when SSTOR is used:
If the entire hard drive is compressed, a small partition is saved which
holds the boot information since it can't decompress files on the SSTOR
drive until the driver is loaded.  Normally, the boot drive is drive C:,
but DEVSWAP.COM is loaded to make it drive D: and the SSTOR drive C:.
Furthermore, DR-DOS looks for DCONFIG.SYS before looking for CONFIG.SYS.
The last line in the standard DCONFIG.SYS is a command to chain to the
user's CONFIG.SYS.

In short, check for DCONFIG.SYS on drives that you don't think you have,
such as D:, E:, or F:.

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