two steps forward one step back

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Amanda -
Nope, no winblows here. It turns out I had two problems - the people who
put my new motherboard and processor in for me left me with an
inconvenient boot sequence, so I could not boot from a floppy, and my DOS
installation was trying to load a driver for a card that had been pulled;
the driver went ballistic and caused a general protection error. I fixed
it by repairing my boot sequence, booting DOS from a floppy, and remarking
out the driver line in config.sys. My system is a dual boot DOS+Linux
system.
Chuck



On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Amanda Lee wrote:

> Sorry if this is out of synch! still catching up after the hackers!
>
> If it's a WindBlows Me system, there are patches to enable Real Mode Dos
> so you can boot to dos.  I applied them and does allow you to boot to dos
> but now I have to manually issue a win to boot into WindBlows ME.  I need
> to look at the msdos.sys to see if windblows boot is off and other
> annoyance is it makes this wakeup your bedpartner loud beep! when it
> starts and I could do without that even though I don't sleep with my
> computer! ha!  Otherwise, it works if this what you're looking for.
>
> Amanda
>
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, John Covici wrote:
>
> > I have a similar system -- no isa slot, but I can run DOS just fine --
> > although its not Windows 3.1.  You probably should get another scanner
> > and you'd be ok with any SCSI or USB one which is supported by
> > whatever operating system you would like.  The ocr is also much
> > better.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, 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.
> >
> > --
> >          John Covici
> >          covici at ccs.covici.com
> >
> >
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