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From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: I need help configuring my system
Message-ID: <2244@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 13:20:21 GMT
References: <2237@cps3xx.UUCP> <16424@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: cook@frith.UUCP (Greg Cook )
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <16424@mimsy.UUCP> velte@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Jack Velte) writes:
>You can boot off the floppy but not off the hard disk.  You think the
>problem is in your config.sys.  Is there a command in the config.sys on
>the hard disk that is causing the boot to die?

No.  I have the same config.sys on my floppy as I do on the hard disk
(with the exception of the paths involved in the file).  I tried to boot
with a config.sys that only had one command at a time and it still
didn't work.  I have a feeling that my MS-DOS install disk isn't working
properly and that DOS on my hard disk is missing something.  I did have
some problems installing DOS (however, everything seems to be working
fine except for the boot problem).

Gateway 2000 has been great.  They called me back when they said they
were going to and they will copy my install disk over again.  Even when
it was probably my fault (there was no write protect cover over the hole
and I might have damaged some files.)

If the problem isn't the installation please let me know.

Thanks,

Greg Cook