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From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:43:04 -0500 (EST)
To: David Poehlman <poehlman AT clark DOT net>
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Can't load DOS from harddrive after installing Open DOS!
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I'm afraid setup.exe trashed your cmos in that event.
If you have a cmos restore system available I suggest you
run it and reboot the computer.  If not, this is not good news.
On Sat, 1
Feb
1997,
David Poehlman wrote:

> 
> I took your advice, and still....
> 
> On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> 
> > I hope you have a boot disk, since 
> > I already wrote you and told you that you'll have to run:
> > sys c: a: <cr>
> > and then will be able to reboot once command.com is in root directory
> > of drive c:.
> > On
> > Sat, 1 Feb
> > 1997, David Poehlman
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, here I am back again.  I'm not sure what the whole problem is now,
> > > but when I got a c: prompt, I ran uninstall and then rebooted.  the first
> > > thing that happens is that the system looks for a floppy no matter what I
> > > do.  I can't read the messages on the screen, so I'm not sure what message
> > > I geg.  the other thing that happens, is that if I press ctrl+alt+del, my
> > > system just sits there after rebooting from the floppy.
> > > any ideas would be appreciated.  it won't accept any commands and I won't
> > > know till later this after noon what the screen says.
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s
> > > touching the internet
> > > voice: 1-(301) 949-7599
> > > E-mail: poehlman AT clark DOT net
> > > ftp: ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman
> > > url: http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
> > 
> 
> Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s
> touching the internet
> voice: 1-(301) 949-7599
> E-mail: poehlman AT clark DOT net
> ftp: ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman
> url: http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman
> 
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>

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