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Date:	Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:38:27 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot failure

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In , on 10/12/02
at 12:53 PM, "Terry Harris" said:

>The sequence is as follows. System starts (ram test, graphics, etc).
>Tries to boot from floppy (no surprises there!) then screen clears.
>Normally we would get the white square OS/2 top left, but instead there
>is a one liner "Booting from Hard Disk" and the HDD LED is on
>permanently. And that's all we have to go on. It will stay like that
>(until we switch it off and go for a coffee, that is!)
>Since then we have done a re-install with minimal problems, but it would
>be nice if it were a single corrupt, but repairable file doing this. Best

I would suspect a corrupted Master Boot record. The "Booting from Hard
Disk" message is probably displayed by the BIOS.

Just booting with a DOS diskette in the drive should not have cause this
failure, unless the diskette happened to have a virus.

In this case, I would have tried to repair the problem by booting from the
install diskettes, dropping to the command line and issuing:

fdisk /newmbr

There might have been additional damage to the boot partition, but this
too can usually be repaired without a reinstall. The key is to describe
the problem with enough specifics so that specific help can be provided.

Glad to hear you are back up and running.

Steven

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