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Boot failure with "missing" country.sys file.
Name: Peter Date: October 21, 2000 at 18:12:38 Pacific
Comment:
I have Warp4 on logical D drive. It fails to boot with a msg saying "System cannot find file D:\os2\system\country.sys (even though its there) specified in the country statement on line 32 of the config.sys file. Line 32 is ignored." Line 32 isnt missing either. I copied the "country.sys" file from one of the utility disks over but to no avail.
Name: Andy B Date: October 23, 2000 at 03:28:27 Pacific
Reply:
The error message is misleading. If I recall correctly, country.sys is about the first thing OS/2 loads after loding the IFSs. So you have a problem that HPFS.IFS doesn't understand your partition correctly. This occured to me when I played around with Win98 and Fat32 support, also some fooling with Partition Magic.
I don't exactly remember what I did (it's been a while), but I did delete and reinstall the boot manager and gave the system a'fdisk /newmbr'.
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Response Number 2
Name: Æ Date: November 2, 2000 at 01:01:54 Pacific
Reply:
You need to make the boot partition active with fdisk or install Boot Manager.
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