Re: floppy boot: cannot operate hard disk or floppy



Hi

Peter Brown wrote:
Hi

мартин шлаттер wrote:
I had an old 2.8 mB os/2 v3 boot diskette.
I did not use it for a while and now I found that it did not boot any
more (hanging) so I replaced all files with the ones from my current
system (v4.5).
When I boot now from this floppy, os/2 starts loading and then says
"cannot operate hard disk or floppy" and stops.

Any idea what it could be?

JMS


config.sys:

IFS=CDFS.IFS /Q
ifs=hpfs.ifs /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:16 /AUTOCHECK:DEFGH
buffers=32
iopl=yes
memman=noswap
protshell=sysinst1.exe
set os2_shell=cmd.exe
diskcache=64,LW
protectonly=yes
pauseonerror=no
codepage=850
country=049,country.sys
devinfo=kbd,gr,keyboard.dcp
set path=\;.;
set dpath=\
set keys=on
libpath=.;a:\;
basedev=print01.sys
basedev=ibmkbd.sys
basedev=ibm1flpy.add
basedev=ibmint13.i13
basedev=os2dasd.dmd



Don't you need IDE and/or SCSI drivers plus floppy driver to be able to access drives?

Regards

Pete




Doh!

Now I notice the ibm1flpy.add line...

Are you trying to boot a W3 or W4 or W4.5x system from this disk? Just wondering if some of the drivers are wrong for the system involved...


Regards

Pete
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