Mail Archives: opendos/2004/06/26/20:27:10
Let's see if the list is fixed now. :) This message is nine days
old now, and I have already made individual contact with a couple of
persons, but I intended a public thanks, so I will send it off again.
Paul
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From: Paul O. BARTLETT <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:21:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03
I appreciate the replies from Travis Siegal and Matthias Paul about
my problem setting up DR-DOS on a dual-boot machine. I just wish I had
more time (and less discouragement) to work on it. :-( (It is
especially frustrating becasue, as I mentioned before, I had this set
up on another computer without a speck of difficulty before that
hardware blew out.)
I did get the DR-DOS partition back without trying, simply by
telling Boot Magic to boot into it. It went berserk, as it had before,
but I had a bootable diskette in A: and hit the button. That diskette
loads DR-DOS 7.03 with its COMMAND.COM, but almost nothing else.
Apparently that process unhid the DOS partition. I was able to re-edit
CONFIG.SYS to load NDOS.COM as the shell, and the reboot is clean and
normal (apart from the random lockups, which were the occasion for my
starting this thread in the first place). I was able to use GUEST.EXE
to be able to enable the ZIPdrive so that I could dump the entire
partition's files to a ZIPdisk in case I wind up deleting the whole
partition and starting over. (I have a lot of program and data files
there.) Why the problem trying to use the native DR-DOS COMMAND.COM I
really have not the slightest idea.
I am not using any stacking or compression utilities on the
partition (nor on the common FAT partition visible to both DR-DOS and
Win98), or anything like that. There is no DCONFIG.SYS. However, there
is a C:\SECURITY.BIN with attributes RSH, size 4516, date 1-07-99. I
have no idea what it really does or why it exists.
When I have time and opportunity, I will try to digest Matthias's
extensive replies and keep working on the problem, either until I give
up in frustration or conclude that I am hopelessly out of my depth.
(In either of those cases, I go back to being a slave of Windows 98.)
--
Paul Bartlett
bartlett "at" smart "dot" net
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