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Date:	Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:55:47 PDT7
From:	J.Pfisterer <pfisterer@gtcinternet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 boot diskette

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:18:09 PDT7, Peter Skye wrote:

>J.Pfisterer wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>Is this a floppy error or a hard drive error? (What drive has its light
>on just before the error occurs?)

Floppy all the way! Right now the HD has nothing on it but Linux (in
three partitions) plus a boot partition and four unformatted
partitions. The latter are my need for the OS/2 boot diskette, in
order to use OS/2 Partition Magic to format them for eCS. The HD is
too big for DOS partition Magic.

I had tried using the eCS CD #1 with the HD in its present state. It
boots, displays a few confirmations, the last of which is "CD Rom
emulation terminated", flashes two presumably-error-messages too fast
to read and then reboots in an endless sequence. My guess is that
it can't see the unformatted partitions that are intended for it; so
am hoping that formatting them will help.

Jack P.

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