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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 01:21:36 -0500
From: "Glenn E. Davis" <gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: LOADER Problems
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Ok, I guess I need to clarify my problem, so this will be long...

I installed Win95 (pre OSR2 or whatever it's called) over OpenDOS
7.02B2.
I then reinstalled OD 7.02B2 over Win95. Install didn't seem to error...
it installed loader.

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). I had the shell line in my dconfig correct so no
changes need there. I've tried using a dconfig and autodos7 files with
most everything remed out (except shell and prompt and a few other
envvars). So that's the problem I'm having... here's my setup:

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)
 
Ok... I have Win95 and OpenDOS sharing [4] for their boot drive.
OS/2 doesn't have any system files (or any other files) on [2] and it
doesn't see 	[4] unless I boot from [6] with [2] as active c: partition.
[4] might actually be FAT12 but it's been a few days since I've looked
at my
	Partition table (and I've looked at three other HDs on 2 other
computers
	since then)
LOADER only appears if [4] is the active (non-hidden) C: partition.
OpenDOS data file (non-boot files) reside on [2] under d:\OpenDOS\
Win95 data files (non-boot files) reside on [2] under d:\Win95\
[1],[3],&[6] shouldn't have any affect on this.
[5] shouldn't either but I'm not sure. Could it?

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So to recap... my setup is above. I didn't post my dconfig.sys and
autodos7.bat files because the never get touched before it locks up.
Everything else works peachy except for booting OD7.02B2 which I have
been able to boot before Win95 ever was installed... so what shoudl I
do?

I think I'm going to gut [4] of all OpenDOS files... including any old
OS backups (all those @*.UI files). Then I think I'll try and reinstall
OD over Win95. And I think I remember I can disable LOADER with a /u
parameter? What other LOADER paraemters are the if any? 

All help is definitely welcomed. And if another request to see my
dconfig and autodos7 files is made... I will post them (I'm in OS/2 now
so I can't see [4] and all those setup files).

Glenn E. Davis
gedavis AT eos DOT ncsu DOT edu