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From: c60b-bu@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: I need help configuring my system
Summary: What do you see?
Keywords: error messages
Message-ID: <11228@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 89 19:57:35 GMT
References: <2237@cps3xx.UUCP> <16424@mimsy.UUCP> <2244@cps3xx.UUCP>
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Reply-To: c60b-bu@buddy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Scott Drellishak)
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>>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 the my hard disk
>(with the exception of the paths involved in the file)
> [more stuff]

Do you remember which error message the machine gave you on failure?  Did it
say that it was a config.sys problem, or are you guessing?  It may have some-
thing to do with a new command syntax in the new version of DOS you're trying
to install.  Or maybe not.

Scott