Ray Hyder wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>>Hi Alan/Ray,
>>Apologies, I didn't actually read that page, I just passed the 
>>newsletter *precis* on *verbatim*.
>>    
>>
>Jeeze Mike, I've never made a mistake... Waitaminute... Yes, there was 
>this one time that I thought that I was wrong and I was right! That was 
>a mistake! :-)
>
:-D :-D 

>I'm sure Allan would agree, no apologies necessary. Your very positive 
>contributions to the OS/2 fora are very much appreciated.
>  
>
Thanks for the vote of confidence. :-)

>>I don't have a router just ISDN 
>>dialup - and using NAT on Injoy - I always get "stealth"
on every port 
>>without one from Steve's site.  
>>    
>>
>>I had noticed many recommendations for Linksys routers on the
various lists, so thought this might be something new and of interest. 
>>    
>>
>My experience with Linksys routers is very good.  Linksys, I believe, is 
>now owned by Cisco.
>
>>Usually I read the pages I refer to first, but was busy at the time
with sorting out someone else's disks, & just swapped my normal disk
back in to do a quick mailcheck, then logged out again.
>>
>Are you making any progress un-scrambling that "someone else's" disk? 
>As I recall you had a truck load of found0 files to sort out.  - ray
>

Hi Ray,

It really pays to be familiar with which files are in which \OS2 \MPTN 
\IBMLAN \IBMCOM directories! In all about 70MB of files.

Yep I recovered and re-timestamped them all courtesy of another 
accessible partition of the same OS/2 vintage.  Now perfectly clean and 
booting as logical "D:", instead of Primary "C:". So
I'm pleased about 
that as it's the first time I've had a completely successful Primary --> 
logical *conversion* along with a boot-letter change on a non-LVM 
system. Unfortunately, as the sequence on the HDU is now :

1. IBM BM
2. DOS-WIN311-GEOS [C:]
3. W2K - standalone C: - not via #2
4. W4 - D: logical

Where previously it was only items 2+3+4 with all three as primaries [C:]

Consequently  W2K is trying to boot from  . . . . . . /partition 2 on 
the disk, vice 3 that it now is.

Using the installation-CD--> HD recovery console is great! :-(      ,  
after an attrib -R C:\boot.ini, you can type "type c:\boot.ini", but 
even though there is an EDLIN.EXE in the system32 directory, it won't 
let you use it, as it's not in the list of allowable commands displayed 
by HELP! It will even let you DELETE it, which I actually did, after 
copying it to boot.old, thinking that as the copy command worked that I 
would be able to type "copy con: c:\boot.ini" etc.  That's when it gets 
pesky and lets you know "that operation isn't supported" or words to 
that effect! :-(

You can set the \WINNT[\WIN here] to the %systemroot% directory, and 
then use "fixboot" [there's also a "fixmbr"], which
because the default 
value [with a 30 second timeout] is partition 2, with an entry also for 
partition 3 - in anticipation of the situation, ends up writing the W2K 
bootsector over the bootsector of partition1 [IBM BM] and consequently 
it always boots to itself, without altering the MBR, where IBM BM is 
*still* set as active.  So at least I now know *how* it does that! ;-)

When it did this I screwed up again:-[    [was getting tired, I guess, 
another pair of back to back 12-hour sessions] and forgot to delay the 
"reboot because of new hardware", and then immediately alter the 
boot.ini *prior* to the reboot, which would have saved the present hassle.
It also wouldn't let me [re]create a former FAT32 partition on the drive 
between cylinders 990 & 1245 [1992.4 MB], and neither would a PQPM 
floppy boot [V3].

Guess I'll just have to "en-slave" it again in another system and edit 
it there. But at least nothing on that partition has gone missing.

Might knock off now and go get sleep before attempting any further work 
there.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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