* Forwarded (from: o2hardl) by mark lewis using timEd/2 1.10.y2k+.
* Originally from Bob Ackley to to-os2hardwarel.
* Original dated: Sun Jul 13, 07:07

Replying to a message of Ed Durrant to All:

 >> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?Pro
 >> ductID=137 8    It installed both Slackware Linux and Windows XP just
 >> fine but I didn't have  an MS license and I already have a killer (AMD
 >> btw but admittedly an Asus w/  nVidia chipset) Linux box plus I kinda
 >> had it in mind when I saw it that I'd  like to build a newer dedicated
 >> OS/2 box (networked, just not multi-boot).   Furthermore since my
 >> older one has been hacked and modified so many times and in  so many
 >> ways I thought it'd be refreshing to start anew with a clean install
 >> and  employ only the mods I actually like and use.  Oh yeah, this is
 >> an out of the  box Warp 4 installation.    Anyway everything proceeds
 >> fine at first up until the moment where it copies  the startup files
 >> from CD (and floppies if "set copyfromfloppy=yes" is
employed)  and it
 >> asks one to remove the diskette and strike "enter" to
restart the 
 >> workstation and proceed with the main body of the install.  Boot
 >> manager comes  up but *immediately*, and I do mean immediately!, it
 >> beeps and I get a deal  breaker error saying "cannot load startup file
 >> system.  the information for the  startup file system is incorrect"   
 >> I have lost my old manual that came in the box and it has been so long
 >> since I  installed Warp 4 I have forgotten (if I ever knew, come to
 >> think of it) what  causes this error.  I tried booting to command
 >> prompt and using "tedit" to check  out the temporary
"config.sys"
 >> which seems fine and searched around to see if 
"hpfs.ifs" was present
 >> and matched the date and size on the CD (it does).  I assume that if
 >> the system can read from CD and write to hard drive all is AOK with
 >> drives (though  I did have to partition the drive to make the boot
 >> drive smaller.  I chose 930MB.    If one can take the error msg
 >> literally and the problem is truly one of either mounting or reading
 >> the HPFS file system I would think perhaps the order in "config.sys'
 >> might be  hinky but the install process did it and should be
 >> right...right?    Anyway any thoughts are welcome.      

 ED> Try using Dani drivers instaed of the old IBM EIDE drivers.

Note that you have to create the boot floppies, replace the IBM
drivers on them with Dani's drivers (I'd erase the IBM drivers and
rename Dani's drivers with the IBM name), and then boot from the floppies.
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