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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I used my ethernet cards to transfer BL3 from a computer where it was on 
the first drive in d:\baslin and there was one other hard drive (hdb) and 
one CD-R drive (hdc), to a second computer with one hard drive (hda) and 
BL3 again in d:\baslin.  I transferred BL3 to several computers this way 
and on the others it runs.  This one has DVD drive on hdc and CD-R/RW on 
hdd (given to us in a dead computer and both able to read CDs but not 
tested beyond that).

I go into d:\baslin and type boot (same boot.bat as usual).

dmesg gets stuck after telling me:

loop:  registered device at major 7
hda = Maxtor.....
hdc= DVD
hdd = CD-R/RW
FDC ....
hda:  hda1 hda2 hda3    (BL2 on hda3, DOS on others, Win98 on hda1 too)
attempt to access beyond end of drive
07:00, rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 07:00 blksize=1024,..... [is this part important?]
EXT2-fs:  unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of drive
07:00, rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 07:00 blksize=1024,..... [is this part important?]
FAT bread failed
kernel panic:  VFS:  Unable to mount root fs at 07:00

What does 07:00 mean?
This is a large partition and I don't think it is full of DOS.
I think I generally only get kernel panic if I have mstab pointing at the 
wrong partition.  I don't know how to look at mstab in the loop BL3 
without booting BL3.  Time to put BL3 on its own partition but what did I 
do wrong here?  

This is a FAT32 DOS partition where D:\baslin resides.  On my own 
computers I use FAT16 for DOS.  Would it be causing the FAT bread problem 
when booting BL3?  If so, can a DOS FAT32 directory safely be changed to 
FAT16 (pqmagic can probably do this, I hope).  The owner thought he could 
get more usable space with FAT32 since it is a large partition.

Gateway 266MHz PII with Intel cpu, if it matters.
BL3 works okay on a nearly identical 233MHz board (except that I have to 
bypass system files on that one for Xvesa and add d=64 to emm386 there).
The other computer has BL2 on a separate hard drive as do all the others 
where I have BL3 working.