From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:43:04 -0500 (EST) To: David Poehlman Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Can't load DOS from harddrive after installing Open DOS! In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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: > > 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 > > > > 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