cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair) (10/18/86)
I have a vintage IBM PC/AT configured as follows: 1-20 Mb Seagate hard disk, 1-1.2 Mb diskette drive, 1-360 K diskette drive. I regularly boot from the A drive, since I use the 1.2 Meg floppy for file backups, and I don't like taking it out to boot the machine. It has an autoexec as follows: c: autoexec My C:autoexec.bat does the real configuring of the system. The problem is this. I never have a problem cold-booting the machine. However, whenever I warm boot (because I've written some bad code, or have downloaded some bad code from the net!), I get the following message with the floppy in the A drive: bad or missing c:\sys\vdisk.sys <next line> bad or missing command interpreter. Now I happen to have a copy of c:command.com on a: (in the root), and my vdisk.sys can't be bad, because on cold boot I have no problem with it. If I remove the floppy from the A drive and try Ctrl-Alt-Del again, I get the message "Boot Failure," after the machine has tried to boot from c:. I don't really understand this behaviour. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -- Charles Blair ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!cjdb The University of Chicago lib.cb%chip@UChicago.Bitnet