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- From: assela@aix.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin)
- Subject: Re: fatal error 0x69 on first boot
- Message-ID: <+k0yp6p@rpi.edu>
- Keywords: 69 boot install
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:48:34 GMT
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- assela@aix.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin) writes:
-
- After furthur investigation, I am still having this problem. I read the
- FAQ and tried it's suggestions (checking to insure all the files were copied,
- making sure none are read-only, etc.) I also pulled every board out of
- my computer except for the IDE hard disk controller and the ATI 8514 board.
- Still no luck. Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated...
- - Andre Asselin (assela@rpi.edu)
-
- >Has anyone gotten a fatal error 0x69 followed by a message to the effect of
- >phase 1 - error initializing I/O? I tried setting up NT using DOS2NT
- >and got this result the first time I tried booting NT. My setup and
- >what I did is listed below.
-
- >Setup:
- > 486/50 ISA with 16Megs (micronics)
- > 213 meg IDE drive partioned as follows
- > C 32 meg FAT
- > extended partition:
- > D 32 meg FAT
- > E 32 meg FAT <- This is the drive I'm putting the swap file--
- > it has 25 meg free
- > F 9 meg FAT
- > G 100 meg HPFS <- OS/2 2.0 is installed here, and is also where
- > I installed NT
- > OS/2 2.0 Boot manager - 1 Meg
- > ATI 8514/A
- > Twincom 9600 baud internal modem
- > SCSI controller that comes with the NEC CDR-74
- > IDE controller
- > Logitech bus mouse
- >
- >The process I followed was:
- > Boot OS/2. Boot Dos 3.3 into a VDM and load SCSI driver and MSCDEX for
- >my NEC CDR-74. Copy and edit DOS2NT so it doesn't play with boot sectors.
- >Run DOS2NT to copy from CDROM to drive G. Edit registry.ini as per
- >the setup notes. Reboot under dos. Change the active partition to C.
- >Reboot. Run the part of DOS2NT that changes the boot sector. Edit boot.ini
- >as per instructions. Reboot and select Windows NT. Bomb-- can't find
- >NTOSKRNL.EXE. Played with boot.ini until I figured out that NT sees
- >the HPFS partition as drive H (why?). Reboot OS/2 and edit registry.ini
- >to reflect that. Reboot, and it starts loading a bunch of device driver,
- >clears the screen, and gives me the fatal error 0x69. I looked at the
- >release notes and couldn't find anything, so I decided to try the procedure
- >on page 50 to change your configuration (delete and recopy the
- >/winnt/system/config files, etc.) Still same problem. Any ideas?
- > - Andre Asselin (assela@rpi.edu)
-