From: ThreeXM 
Subject: Re: Help with 3.12 Server please?
Date: 1999/07/13
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You said you put the old drive back in and it hangs at the MSDOS banner. The
first thing I would want to do is get my old system back, but it sounds as
though something must have changed in the BIOS while you were updating the HD.
Put the BIOS, cables etc. back to original and press f8 as soon as the MSDOS
banner appears and you can step through the boot sequence to see what is causing
the hang.

Good Luck!

artreid wrote:

> >Have you properly set up the hard drive to be recognized by the
> >CMOS / BIOS on the machine.....or does it auto-detect new hardware?
> Yes...
>
> >Does the machine support the larger hard drive's size...some older
> >machines have limitations to BLOCK sizes 1024 or less and others
> >require LBA mode to support anything over 528MB.
> >Check these things first.
> Yes, 1 Gg is CP's max...
>
> >Try booting the box with a plain old bootable dos floppy and see if you can
> even read the HD.....
> Yes, I can read drive when I boot from floppy...
>
> John, I think the key to this problem might be the fact that I cannot read
> the *Load File*?
>
> I get Error reading load file... msg even when I manually attempt to load
> PS2SCSI.DSK, OS2.NAM or MOUNT ALL?
> I think if someone can tell me how to resolve this Load File thing, I might
> be back in business.
>
> By any means necessary,  (recreate/recover whatever).
>
> Art
> ================================================
> >>When I try booting the server from new newer/larger HDD it stops with
> >errors
> >>and just sits there:
> >>    - Adapter slot 8 enabled
> >>        - Error reading from load file
> >>    - Scanning for new UnRegistered Devices
> >>   - Adding Device  (SEAGATE STNxxxxx)
> >>    - Mounting volume SYS
> >>        - Error reading from load file
> >>    - NAMESPACE support not  loaded
> >>    - Volume SYS NOT mounted