In a message of 11 Aug 96 Arthur Sawilejskij wrote to me:

 SB>>> about 2 1/2 minutes, and BEFORE the validation process is
finished! It
 SB>>> will then reboot, and try to validate again, and crash.....and so on.
 SB>>> If I dont stop it, it will do this AGAIN and AGAIN, and AGAIN....

 DW>> Boot with the WB3.x install floppy disk to validate the hard drive.

 AS>      I've had success with bringing up the boot option screen and just
 AS> leaving it sitting there for a few minutes while it validates, then
 AS> continue from there.

That can work but I've had some really spectacular crashes (due to Emplant)
that would not allow me to even get into the boot menu.  Then the disk
method id the only way.


Catchya

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