rk@bigbroth.UUCP (rohan kelley) (08/17/88)
I have a PC Limited 286 -8, 1MB, ST251 disk with the latest d11 rom
bios installed. It runs the SysV/286 ok
but I just installed locus merge. It shifts to dos on command, but
on return to dos, the problems begin. During some commands, the screen
freezes. If I try to reboot from the $ or # prompt, it makes one quick
disk seek, then freezes. No key will free it. A contr-alt-del simply
prints on the screen "The system is coming down" and nothing else
happens. Each type the c-a-d is pushed after that, the same message is
printed. The only way to thaw it is to turn off the power and risk the
file system corruption.
A c-a-d from dos produces the proper warm boot but the files suffer and
the fscheck does the usual repair.
A simple c-a-d from unix or a shutdown, so long as the dos side hasn't
been involked produces the expected results. Only after having been in
dos do I get the problems.
The boot indicates Clists=45 buffers=100k. Is there some tunable
paramater, such as BUFFS that I could change to eliminate the problem?
Other than the obvious [stay out of dos] is there anything I can I can
do to make this thing run right?
Please email replies since this is not a normal newsgroup for me.
Thanks.
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