doaitse@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Doaitse Swierstra) (08/03/90)
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I had a little problem with the Toshiba in the sense that it screwed itself
up in an irresettable position. I had told it a long time ago to boot from
the Hardram-disk, and installed an OS there. Recently I removed the
command.com from the hardram because I coud not remember what it was doing
there.
I recently found out that some applications use space that is basically
owned by the command interpreter. If you return from such an application
the command interpreter reloads itself. Unfortunately it could not find
itself anymore on the hardram disk and the system stopped. When it tried to
reboot, it rebooted from the hardram as it had been told a long time ago. In
initialising itself it could not find its associated command.com and halted
again. It took a long time before I figured out what had happened. The
remedy was to remove the battery pack, let the internal back-up battery run
out in order to destroy the contents of the hardram, and then reboot. It then
started to complain that the hardram was ruined, and by pressing F1 I
convinced it of trying to boot normally, which finally succeeded.
Doaitse Swierstraa577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) (08/04/90)
> doaitse@praxis.cs.ruu.nl writes: > > I had a little problem with the Toshiba in the sense that it screwed itself > up in an irresettable position. I had told it a long time ago to boot from > the Hardram-disk, and installed an OS there. Recently I removed the > command.com from the hardram because I coud not remember what it was doing > there. If this was a T1000SE there is a recessed button on the left side right next to the power jack. This is the hard reset button. You have to use a pen or pin or some such object to press it. Pressing it should kill the HardRAM drive. -cjs ( Curt_Sampson@mindlink.UUCP )