said:
>>I'm trying to build an OS/2 bootable diskette, using the
>>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.
The closest thing I could find was g:\cid\server\mpts\makedisk.exe.
That directory suggests it's not what we want; but I tried it on an
empty diskette just to see what would happen. What happened was an
error message saying I hadn't supplied all the required parameters,
and calling for a "source", a "target", and a "d" parameter that I
took to be for a disk number. Looks to me like a utility to create
diskettes from the three disk images for the Warp business server.
>>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.
Did that. Everything appeared to copy with no problems.
>>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.
Did that. No errors reported.
>>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.
At one time I had a 2-diskette boot set, one 3.5" and one 5.25" that
worked well together. Unfortunately, I can't find a trace of them
since our big move.
>You have two problems. A bad diskette and a bad build process.
Certainly the latter :(
Then on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:03:58 PDT7 "Steven Levine" wrote:
>In <20050724195549.0A7F41FFD0@mail1.gtcinternet.com>, on 07/24/05
> at 12:55 PM, J.Pfisterer said:
>>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.
It appears you have not told us the whole story. Is this a new
system? Your old system had none of these problems.
Yes, a new system; but wanted to focus on the boot diskette problem.
The constructed boot diskette performs (fails) exactly the same way
on both new and old boxes.
Thanks, Steven.
Jack P.
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