X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:26:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul O. BARTLETT" To: OpenDOS List Subject: Re: Random Lockups with DR-DOS 7.03 Message-ID: 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 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul O. BARTLETT 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 PGP key info in message headers