-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, I 'm sucessfully using netboot on a 3Com 3c905c to start MS-DOS 6.22. All necessary drivers for the network card are being loaded. Everything works quite fine, EXCEPT of the access of local drives and CD-ROMS. intended use - ------------ The machine is heavily used for software-development and software-testing. I am using the remote-booted DOS 6.22 operating system to create an image of my hard-drives or to restore a previously created image. This saves a lot of time recovering from severe errors on the local operating-system, happening quite often during the software-tests. description of the problem - --------------------------- Booting the maching from the disk works very well - with all ASPI and ATAPI drivers!! So I used this disk as the source for the disk-image created with mknbi-dos and prepared with imggen (MBA-support). But starting with that image makes the machine hang as soon as an ASPI or ATAPI driver gets loaded. If none of these drivers gets loaded the boot process ends sucessfully and I am able to access network drives. But then I can not access my CD-ROM drives (one ATAPI and one SCSI on AIC-7890 U2W adapter!). I even can not access local IDE drives although they do not require any driver. Fortunately the program I use for creating the hard-disk images (Symantec Ghost 1999) still can access the hard-drive partitions. So it seems to me that programs accessing the local hard-drives directly via BIOS (interrupt 13h) and not via MS-DOS are still working. question - -------- Why does the remotely booted MS-DOS 6.22 can't access local drives? (Because of the MBA of 3Com 3c905C or because of netboot or whatever?) Is there a workaround? I would really appreciate any suggestion! Enclosed is the used config.sys for start-up of MS-DOS. Regards, Niki ======================================== config.sys ======================================== DEVICE=himem.sys /testmem:off DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS buffers=20,0 files=60 dos=UMB lastdrive=Z FCBS=4,0 country=049,850,country.sys dos=HIGH stacks=9,256 ;if activated hangs the machine - DEVICE=oakcdrom.sys /D:oemcd001 ;if activated hangs the machine - DEVICEHIGH=aspi8u2.sys ;devicehigh=aspicd.sys /D:oemcd002 ;DEVICEHIGH=ASPIDISK.SYS DEVICE=IFSHLP.SYS ======================================== - - ------------------------------------------------ Nikolaus Rosenmayr, n.rosenmayr@advance.at ICQ: 71968479 ************************************************ * Search for public PGP-keys with * * http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html * ************************************************ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQCVAwUBOj/UXRZHcoy+qUlZAQFOtQQAsEYepUCNo58aU/LSw9SBqiIXQUTVMXp4 sMhTLmFi73e4vBUzXTJXxlwydgojHwqBzNrHTlxUG/MlFwQbGbWnp5wQqOO6VBdz fYKW66bb/DpEDcvzAsosgsRATu9lXkYjRxQ1x7YNkSLvokgG0IDk6j2ma8Ixj3Hm O7XgFktMwEo= =fvDb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: "Niki Rosenmayr" <n.rosenmayr@advance.at> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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