Greetz Gents
  Since I don't know if this is a hardware issue I'm hoping it's OK to post this 
question here.  Besides, you are the only OS/2 guys I know and trust.

  I recently managed a pretty amazing deal on a like-new PIII-S (the one w/ 512K 
cache) in a sweet little case and a decent brand mobo (Gigabyte GA-6VEML) which 
is the all-onboard type that I never buy but the whole PC in a case with lots of 
goodies for $75 US seemed just too good to pass up.
  If you think you need specs here it is:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=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.




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