Mail Archives: opendos/1998/01/05/07:07:38
On 98-01-05 Glenn E. Davis wrote:
>Well when I reboot I get the LOADER screen: F1 for Normal F2 for OD. I
>hit F2 and "IBMBIO.SYS" flashes up very quickly and the screen goes
>blank and the computer locks up so tight that it can only be recovered
>with a hard reset. I've tried the scroll lock deal (no additional info
>or events occur).
Ok, this indicates, that even IBMBIO.COM is not loaded correctly.
I guess, "IBMBIO.SYS" mentioned above is only a typo error, and BOOT.LST
actually contains a line like "IBMBIO.COM S OpenDOS 7.02". Then the only
thing I can imagine so far is that LOADER searches for these files on the first
primary partition on the first drive ([1]), rather than on it s active primary partition
(should be [4] here, shouldn t it?), something which I already assumed in the last
reply. If this is actually the case LOADER would try to load IBMBIO.COM from the
HPFS partition, which obviously must fail.
>HD 1 - 1.3 Gigs:
>1) Primary HPFS ~500 megs C: for OS/2 Warp 4
>2) Ext FAT16 ~500 megs D: for OpenDOS,Win95, and OS/2
>3) Ext HPFS ~300 megs E: for OS/2
>4) Primary FAT16 ~10 megs C: for OpenDOS and Win95
>5) Primary ~3megs IBM Boot Manager
>
>HD 2 - ~250 megs
>6) Ext/Pri HPFS ~250megs F: for OS/2 Warp 4 (Bootable for
>recovery purposes)
I have had similar configurations working (using OS/2 bootmanager and LOADER),
but the DOS boot partition has always been also the first partition. I guess, swapping
your partitions [1] and [4] could get a working setup, without changing your drive
assignments. The question is only: How without re-installing all and everything on
your two drives? Personally I have never used them, but I have been told that for
example tools like Partition Magic do a good job here. AFAIK Mark Aitchison s FDISK
utility (available from his web-pages) also has a partition moving option, but probably
Mark itself is the best source to answer such questions...
Matthias
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