jmiranda wrote:
> Hi, everybody
> 
> Need help urgently!
> 
> One of my partitions crashed and on reboot OS/2 tries to run chkdsk on 
> the "dirty" partition but is unable because of sys 0256
"not enough 
> memory to run chkdsk"; then it reboots and never goes beyond trying (and 
> failing) to fix the problem with that partition.
> 
> I tried going to my maintenance partition (which I can) but I can not 
> run CHKDSK from there for the same reason.
> 
> Does anybody has any ideas on how to solve this problem?
> 
> The partition in question has 25GB and I use hpfs386; the hard drive was 
> partitioned with LVM.
> I have 1 GB of memory, Athlon 2.7 Ghz.
> I think I can assess DFSEE from the maintenance partition.
You should have
BASEDEV=CHKDSK.SYS
in config.sys immediately after
BASEDEV=lvm.dmd

Try to set
EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE
in config.sys (sure, no SET). Test it - On some computers the system 
would not work or crash when this system variable is set. But this 
helps chkdsk.sys to have all memory it needs.

It does definitly NOT work with Adaptec ISA Controllers!

Try it and leave it alone when yor system looses no stability.

> 
> Is there a limit on the partition size above which CHKDSK will not work?

Depends on available RAM.
Depends on chkdsk.sys is in config.sys or not.

I've an 32GB volume (80% full) with 512MB RAM. and chkdsk went well 
always when needed.



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