said:
>I'm trying to build an OS/2 bootable diskette, using the instructions
>from the 1995 New Riders Publishing: OS/2 Certification Handbook. It's
>based on Warp 3; but I used files from the v4.52 convenience package and
>my current OS/2 installation.
Use the diskette builder that's on the 4.52 CD. It will produce working
diskettes that you can optimize for your setup. It's called makedisk.cmd
or something like that.
>Attempting to boot from the resulting diskette produces errors:
> OS/2 !! SYS2025: A disk-read error occurred.
> OS/2 !! SYS2027: Insert a system diskette and restart the system.
This is probably a bad diskette, what do you have that can check that the
diskette is readable? Worst case, you can do:
xcopy /h /o /t /s /e /r /v a:\ c:\tmp
where c:\tmp can be any handy work directory.
>Not very enlightening (as usual). At least it recognizes that it's
>trying to boot OS/2. CHKDSK reveals no problems with the diskette.
Chkdsk does not read every sector, so this is not unexpected.
chkdsk /v a:
reads some more of the diskette, but it is still only a partial read.
>Copied from the convenience package CD:
> 10-29-01 9:00p 849,407 0 a--- OS2KRNLI
This is correct because you need to be prompted for the 2nd and 3rd
diskette.
> (Also tried with OS2KRNLI renamed to OS2KRNL)
> 10-29-01 9:56p 44,544 0 a--- OS2LDR
> 10-29-01 8:38p 8,878 0 a--- OS2LDR.MSG
> 10-03-01 6:35a 25,507 0 a--- KEYBOARD.DCP
> 10-26-01 10:09a 4,240 0 a--- SYSINST1.EXE
> 10-27-01 10:51p 32,336 0 a--- SIPANEL1.DLL
This will never work. Warp4 is simply too big for a single diskette boot.
>Can anyone suggest what the problem is and how to deal with it? WAGs are
>welcome.
You have two problems. A bad diskette and a bad build process.
Regards,
Steven
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