"M. Neidorff" wrote:
>
> At 10:08 PM 08/24/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
> <a bunch of stuff that I cut>
>
> I'm going to start with the obvious: Have you tried a different floppy. If
> you don't have one, try to boot from the install floppy, change to a
> different console, and mount the / partition manually? If all goes well,
> then it is the floppy gone bad. (a common thing)
>
> Mark
<a bunch of stuff that I cut>
Hello Mr. Neidorff:
Thank you for your input. I was beginning to think that my problem was
beyond the scope of the list.
Yes, as I stated in the fourth paragraph, when I made the original boot
disk I made two and put one away in case something like this might
happen. An old DOS habit. I always make two because too many times a
problem is just something simple like a corrupted file. And yes, I did
test the backup boot disk before I put it away.
I've also checked and the boot files are in the correct places, have the
correct names, have not been corrupted, both the floppy and the hard
disk are readable and correct so far as I can ascertain. Even the
inittab is in the right place and not corrupted or changed. I must
assume that the change is something done by Win95 in the 'hidden' boot
cylinder (good ol' Mr. Gates trying to eliminate the competition,
maybe).
Something is different due to the separate hard disk. As I stated
before, the RH 6.2 install on the same hard disk as Win95 is not
affected, only the install on the third hard disk.
Can you think of something that might occur (such as Win95 putting its
own id on the disk to reference the vfat32 partition) that I haven't
mentioned? This problem occurred after using Win95 for several days
without booting RH 6.2.
Thank you.
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