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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Hal MacArgle wrote:

> First tried BL3 2-floppy, which boots lilo nicely though loadlin often
> does not work correctly unless I first boot with Win9X DOS.  (It had
> worked a few times with DR-DOS before I crashed, maybe that was related?).
> Ran e2fsck and answered yes to a few questions and it said something about
> uncorrectable errors and stopped.  Tried to figure this out online.  It is
> nice to have several linuxes on the computer.  BL2 ramdisk worked (from
> Win95 DOS boot, anyway) but does not have e2fsck.

Learn a lesson from a hosed BL2 install I ended up with: copy the e2fsck
binary to your DOS partition so it will be available to BL2 ramdisk if you
ever have this problem again.

James