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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:37:14 PDT
From: Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request

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raydav@intlaccess.com wrote:
>
> It is my understanding that I should be
> able to boot from floppies for maintance
> purposes. I attempted to make boot
> floppies using
> "CREATE UTILITY DISKETTES", both with
> and without "Use files from hard disk".
> I also created a set using OS2BOOT.EXE
> from Clear and Simple. That gives me
> three sets of boot disks. They all
> partialy boot and then then fail at
> different points.

You should be able to boot from diskette, and if all three different
sets of diskettes fail to boot then you may have a hardware problem.
(What version of Warp and FixPak level are you using? One of the FixPak
levels supposedly had a bug in "create utility diskettes".)

Try to boot from your original OS/2 installation diskettes. They won't
have all your drivers, but they _should_ boot. (If you're SCSI you'll
need to make a copy of the install diskettes and add your driver. If
you need help doing this, holler back.)

Alt-F1 at the bootup "little white box" will take you to a selector
screen where you can go to a command line and then run CHKDSK.

> I turned off the power switch and that
> forced CHECK DISK to run on drive E,
> and it cleared the problems it was
> reporting. That is not a very elegant
> way to fix the drive.

Tell you what - don't do that any more. :)

Instead, shut down properly and boot from diskette. Turning off your
machine without "shutting down" doesn't write the disk cache out to the
drive, so you lose whatever info is still in the cache and waiting to be
written. (This can cause some BIG problems if the cache is still
writing when the power goes off, especially if it's updating the OS/2
system info such as, for example, your desktop layout.)

> The /F switch is accepted on the second
> drive, but if I attempt to use it on any
> partition on the first drive, I get a
> "Locked or in use" error.

That's supposed to happen - it safeguards any data files that you're
writing to.

> Any ideas?

First, figure out why none of your three sets of boot diskettes work.
Use Alt-F2 at "the little white box" to watch the drivers load - you'll
probably get a clue as to which one is causing the failure.

It's been a while since I had to remove a driver from the bootup
diskettes. I think you have to modify the CONFIG.SYS file on the
_second_ diskette (labeled "Installation Diskette 1"). You REM out the
driver that's stopping the bootup process (as per Alt-F2 in the previous
paragraph), then boot again.

As for the CCHMAIN.EXE problem, let's see if it goes away once your
drive E: is fixed.

Let me know if this helps,

- Peter

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