Message-Id: Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 12:01:46 +0000 From: Matthias Paul To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LOADER Problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ Matthias Paul eMail: Web: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html