two steps forward one step back

[Kerry Hoath]

Have you repartitioned the disk? Remember you can't boot a dos partition
beyond the first 2gb of drive.
Try running lilo with -v -v -v and email me the output offlist
and i'll take a look at it.. If you are using lilo that is.
Also check if the compact option is set when it shouldn't or visa versa.
Archenstone for dos was a nice program. I have Reading advantage yet to see if it can
run in dosemu it is a true dos application.
What sort of board did you get? I've played with a couple of the athlon boards.

You might want to consider some sort of filtering to keep out the cat hair :-)

Regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:45:25AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> I am recovering from a catastrophic failure here, caused by an
> accumulation of cat hair in my fans and a runaway heating problem. I lost
> a power supply, a processor, and a motherboard. On the theory that every
> catastrophe is just a disguised opportunity, I upgraded my hardware rather
> than simply replacing it. I am now running an AMD Athlon processor at 1400
> MHz with 256 MB ram instead of the 600 MHz Athlon with 64 MB ram I was
> previously using.
> 
> That is the good news.
> 
> The bad news is - while the old motherboard had an ISA slot, the new one
> does not. And while the old system ran DOS on a small partition, the new
> system will not run DOS. Attempting to run DOS causes the loader to switch
> to rerunning Linux, but when that happens Linux hangs up when about 90%
> through the boot process with no speech, no keyboard control, and no error
> messages left on the screen.
> 
> The reason I have preserved a DOS partiti9on is to support two legacy apps
> I have relied on. One is the Arkenstone Openbook software which runs under
> Windows 3.11. The ISA slot on the old system supported a scanner interface
> card for this ancient Scanjet Plus flat bed scanner, so without that card
> and without DOS/Win3.11, I guess I kiss Arkenstone goodbye.
> 
> The other legacy app is an old DOS version of "CheckFree" with which I pay
> my bills electronically. So I guess I kiss my bill paying goodbye.
> 
> I will probably move the Scanjet card and Arke;nstone software to an old
> 486SX which will also run the CheckFree program too, so all is not as
> bleak as I made out. However, it seems too bad to ask a 486SX to do OCR
> when a perfectly good Athlon XP 1600+ is spinning its wheels on email and
> web browsing trivia.
> 
> The only thing I can think to do is collar someone to help me sort through
> the menus of the CMOS setup program on my new system to see if there are
> some settings that might sabotage my DOS. If anyone knows what I might
> look for on the setup menus I would appreciate some suggestions.
> 
> Ain't computers fun?
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
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> 
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