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- From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: DR DOS v6/STOR Question
- Message-ID: <7988@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 07:59:13 GMT
- Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU
- Organization: The Hacker Conference
- Lines: 29
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- I am having a problem with a system running dr dos v6.0 and the
- version of stor that comes with it. Specifically, at apparently
- random intervals, upon bootup, the system will deliver the following
- message:
- Cannot load file
- Press a key to retry
-
- NOTHING in the dconfig.sys is run (originally I thought that perhaps
- the first item in dconfig.sys was generating the error so I put in an
- echo statement as the first line of the dconfig, when the above
- error occurs, the line is NOT displayed) and the system will sit
- until a key is pressed. In most cases pressing the key once causes
- the system to reboot and everything is fine. In some cases you will
- get the error again but in ALL cases after you have rebooted a
- couple of times the system will work, without any apparent problems.
- The only 'funny' thing we can find is that chkdsk tends to give
- REALLY bad estimates. I know it uses a 2:1 estimate but it does
- things like say we have 7 megs of free space when we only have 100k.
- Because the system is running dr dos's stor I suspect that is the
- root of the problem. Does anyone know anything about this error and
- can provide additional information?
-
- Thank you,
- The Jester
- --
- The Jester
- "It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't
- talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything
- about we can discuss."- Richard Feynman
-