Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!ccicpg!cci632!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!bbn!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!aablue!jb From: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: wierd problems during HD boot Keywords: config.sys Message-ID: <598@aablue.UUCP> Date: 22 Jul 89 15:32:23 GMT Organization: A A Blueprint Co., Inc. - Akron Lines: 28 I've just been wrestling with the wierdest problem I've ever encountered while putting together a PC; thus, I find myself turning to the net again for help. What I'm building is a little Everex Step 286/12-2, and I'm trying to install one of Miniscribe's little half-height 80MB drives, a 3085. The problem I'm encountering is that the unit, while booting from the hard disk doesn't seem to want to read config.sys or its autoexec.bat file. I've tried doing low levels with both Disk Manager from Ontrack and Everex's own disk utilities. Both give the same end results. In either case I low level, partition, and logically format the drive into what should be C:, D:, & E: drives. When I boot the unit, everything looks normal, except stupid things, like my environment size and the path I want, never get set. Anybody got any ideas? Everex can't help since this isn't one of their "factory" drives, but I don't have any choice but to use this (unless you know of another HH 80MB drive that I could substitute). Humbly yours, John B. Scalia -- A A Blueprint Co., Inc. - Akron, Ohio +1 216 794-8803 voice UUCP: {uunet!}aablue!jb Sometimes they do let me speak for the company, not today though.