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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:23:56 PST8
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility diskettes hanging up

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Steven Levine writes:

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> In <20040120035731.14560.qmail@beth.linkline.com>, on 01/19/04
> at 07:57 PM, waynec@linkline.com said:
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>>I have a problem with a FAT16 partition, and when I tried to address the
>>issue by running chkdsk /f I got a message saying the partition is in use
>>by another program (nothing running at the time).
>
> Something is running. You have OS/2 booted and it has the drive locked.
>
>>Anyway, now the diskette boot hangs up on the third diskette (DISK2)
>>after it displays the hard drive adapters info screen (IDE and SCSI,
>>looks normal) and starts loading drivers. It hangs with this list of
>>loads on the screen, using either the June or the December diskette
>>sets:
>
>>HPFS.IFS
>>\DOS.SYS
>>\MOUSE.SYS
>>\TESTCFG.SYS
>>CDFS.IFS
>>\OS2CDROM.DMD
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> How did you get this to display? Did you use Alt-F2 or do you have an
> AltF2on.$$$ file? If so, this tends to indicate something changed wish
> respect to your CD-ROM drive.

I used Alt-F2. Not sure what could have changed, I don't think I changed a
thing since I last used the diskettes... but I guess something must have
changed.

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> If you are using a sufficiently new kernel, you can use Alt-F4 to single
> step through config.sys.

I'll try that, but my kernel may not be new enough: 10/18/2001

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> Regards,
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> Steven
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