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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:01:15 PST8
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Hard drive problem

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Hi Jordan,

I have solved the problem. I find that if I keep beating my head against
the same wall over and over, something sometimes occurs.

What I found this time, is that a USB device, a memory card reader, that I
use under Windows for transferring photos, was the culprit. Once I
unplugged the device, the eCS CD boot up just fine.

So I am back in business.

Hope this helps you with your situation.

Sandy

In <402BC9E2.EAED2592@pacbell.net>, on 02/12/04
at 11:46 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

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>Sandy wrote:

>> I thought I would just reinstall eCS 1.1 and start over, but when I try
>> booting from the CD it says:
>>
>> Unpacking files
>>
>> CD ROM emulation terminated.
>>
>> Divide by zero (and then a register dump).
>>
>> I can boot into eCS version 1.0 from floppies, and LVM can see the hard
>> drive with no problem. I no longer have my eCS 1.0 CD, and I don't have
>> floppies for eCS 1.1 (I have always been able to boot to a command line
>> from the installation CD in the past).

>Sandy,

>I have the eCS 1.0 CD(s), which I could loan to you, perhaps at the next
>meeting.

>I have a converse boot-from-CD issue that I don't understand. The last
>time I tried to boot from the eCS install CD, there was no problem. I
>can boot just fine from the Knoppix cd, and a Linux-based Win-32 "repair"
>CD (which doesn't do what it claims to do -- at least on my system -- but
>it does boot up). However, my W2K install cd will no longer boot. (It
>used to.) Hangs forever at "Setup is inspecting your system." The W2K
>4-floppy pre-install set, which does exactly what the early stages of the
>CD does, still work fine. I have no idea how / why one can lose the
>ability to boot from CD so selectively.

>Jordan

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