Have you repartitioned the disk? Remember you can't boot a dos partition beyond the first 2gb of drive. Try running lilo with -v -v -v and email me the output offlist and i'll take a look at it.. If you are using lilo that is. Also check if the compact option is set when it shouldn't or visa versa. Archenstone for dos was a nice program. I have Reading advantage yet to see if it can run in dosemu it is a true dos application. What sort of board did you get? I've played with a couple of the athlon boards. You might want to consider some sort of filtering to keep out the cat hair :-) Regards, Kerry. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:45:25AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I am recovering from a catastrophic failure here, caused by an > accumulation of cat hair in my fans and a runaway heating problem. I lost > a power supply, a processor, and a motherboard. On the theory that every > catastrophe is just a disguised opportunity, I upgraded my hardware rather > than simply replacing it. I am now running an AMD Athlon processor at 1400 > MHz with 256 MB ram instead of the 600 MHz Athlon with 64 MB ram I was > previously using. > > That is the good news. > > The bad news is - while the old motherboard had an ISA slot, the new one > does not. And while the old system ran DOS on a small partition, the new > system will not run DOS. Attempting to run DOS causes the loader to switch > to rerunning Linux, but when that happens Linux hangs up when about 90% > through the boot process with no speech, no keyboard control, and no error > messages left on the screen. > > The reason I have preserved a DOS partiti9on is to support two legacy apps > I have relied on. One is the Arkenstone Openbook software which runs under > Windows 3.11. The ISA slot on the old system supported a scanner interface > card for this ancient Scanjet Plus flat bed scanner, so without that card > and without DOS/Win3.11, I guess I kiss Arkenstone goodbye. > > The other legacy app is an old DOS version of "CheckFree" with which I pay > my bills electronically. So I guess I kiss my bill paying goodbye. > > I will probably move the Scanjet card and Arke;nstone software to an old > 486SX which will also run the CheckFree program too, so all is not as > bleak as I made out. However, it seems too bad to ask a 486SX to do OCR > when a perfectly good Athlon XP 1600+ is spinning its wheels on email and > web browsing trivia. > > The only thing I can think to do is collar someone to help me sort through > the menus of the CMOS setup program on my new system to see if there are > some settings that might sabotage my DOS. If anyone knows what I might > look for on the setup menus I would appreciate some suggestions. > > Ain't computers fun? > > Chuck > > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waning Crescent (12% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
