Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!rknop From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: GEOS Companion Disk Keywords: Problems... Message-ID: <1991Feb17.024528.17465@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 17 Feb 91 02:45:28 GMT References: Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 28 lcs@remus.rutgers.edu (Lyle C. Seplowitz) writes: >The first problem is most serious to me (since it is one of the main >reasons for purchasing this package), the 1581 Bootmaker program does >not work properly. It creates the bootdisk and all the files. I copied >the suggested files over to it and then turned off the computer and >tried to boot GEOS with the 1581 bootdisk. Everything goes fine, >except at the very end of the load, after the deskTop is fully >displayed, the computer crashes and GEOS reports a "system error near >xxxx" dialogue box that is continuously redrawn. I tried removing the Hmmm... I had trouble with the 1581 bootmaker, but that wasn't it. First question: what version of GEOS are you using? I don't know this, but I suspect it may only work with 2.0. Maybe not. Second: the problem I did have was, after creating the boot disk, I started moving files around on the disk so they were all organized prettily by page. When I was done, I discovered that the first three files on the disk, the system files, had vanished! Further investigation showed that their directory entries had been replaced with all 0's; this I was able to rectify easily enough (nowadays I keep on my two 1581 boot disks copies of track $28, sector 0, in case I need to restore it). Check your boot disk to make sure that the system files are still there. If you still have trouble with it, send me a complete description in the mail, and I'll ask Jim Collette (the author) on Q-Link. -Rob Knop rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu