X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:22:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul O. BARTLETT" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-PGP-key: ftp://ftp.smart.net/pub/bartlett/pgpkey X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: E62D 2E2C 7BCD 08CB B742 A937 26A9 1532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, da Silva, Joe wrote: > Paul, > > Well, if you can sort-of boot DR-DOS, you should be able to > overcome your Config.Sys and Autoexec.Bat problems via > the F8 key (or F5?). F8 single steps through CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. I think that F5 bypasses both of them, although I have never tried it. > Then perhaps NDD can fix your partition problems? Or > Partition Magic? Or Fdisk? At present, so far as I know, the only way I gat get to the DOS partition at all is through FDISK on a floppy or Partition Magic running under Win98. I already mentioned the warning from PM which kind of scared me off. As for FDISK, I really don't know much about it, and the only documentation I have is on the unreachable partition. Granted, I could always delete and recreate the DOS partition, but I would like to salvage it if I can. Once I got the ZIPdrive working, I was going to save a copy of the files on a ZIPdisk, but I never got that far. > If you get that far, so things boot normally again, I'd suggest > you try M$-DOS Himem.Sys and Emm386.Sys from M$W98 > (copy then to C: if required). I will keep this in mind. (I would have to copy them over, because the main Win partition is not visible to the DOS partition -- deliberately so.) > Any instability problems I've had in the past with DR-DOS > 7.02+ have been caused by Emm386.Exe, so that's why > I have suggested the above. [trim] I will keep all that in mind. Thanks for responding. -- Paul Bartlett bartlett "at" smart "dot" net PGP key info in message headers