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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 crashed ..and ate BOOT MNGR?!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.005438.24894@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:54:38 GMT
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- In article <!6mmy##.rlynx@netcom.com> rlynx@netcom.com (Roger Lynx) writes:
- >Hi,
- >just today my OS/2 setup crashed (not enough memory etc....) and
- >when I managed to shutdown ... I could not boot anymore.
- >Booting FDISK from DOS331 told me "hard disk reading error " (before it displayed everything okay)
- >Booting from HD "Basic ROM not found" in 40 char size letters.
- >
- >HW: 486DX2, 16MB, 1542B, 330MB SCSI Micropolis, T8900C 1MB
- >SW 1MB Boot mngr
- > C: 75MB DOS331
- > D: 190MB HPFS OS/2 system
- > E: 50MB HPFS OS/2 DATA
- >
- >IS there away to re-make boot manager? Short of re-installing OS/2!?
- >Thanks for input, help.
-
- Why don't you try booting from the install diskettes. You can run fdisk from
- the command line, after pressing ESC.
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