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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > got a segmentation fault.
> > I had to power off and on again.
> > I tried to reboot back into BL2.
> > It took about five tries on this computer to get
> >   past the 'Not an image file' message
> > now occurs more than half the time on this computer
>
> Clearly there is a hardware problem with that computer.

On all three computers of this model motherboard I have the same problem.
Hal has it on one of his too.  Works fine with Win9X DOS but not always 
with the others.  I can handle this.

> > I needed to find some way to fix BL2
>
> Don't worry about BL2.  Fix (or discard) that computer.
Nobody has ever found us a fix other than using Win9X DOS which I do not 
want to do because I cannot Defrag without Win9X.  That is our best 
computer otherwise - 233MHZ and it takes 4x64MB SIMMs.  The other fast 
computers have 2-3 DIMM slots except one which won't take these SIMMs.
Using lilo would also fix this problem but I tend to use DOS a lot still
for wordprocessing (also to go online to read email with a scroll buffer 
on the TTL monitor).

 > >> I suggest using not linux unzip but 
pkunzip on the latest >> bl3-32fd.zip file.
> There's nothing wrong with the Linux unzip.
> It works fine on bl3-32fd.zip.

It worked for you, but for me it did not.  Maybe the fs.img file confused 
it?  I tried twice with the file in a DOS partition then once in a linux 
partition.  I don't want to mess up the superblock again trying.

> > I had assumed linux unzip would work
>
> It does.
>
> > Steven, can you 'unzip' bl3-32fd.zip with linux unzip
> > in BL2?
>
> Yes.  It works fine.  BL2 is what I use all the time.

> > I would replace the computer but it is the fastest one that will
> > take our four 64MB SIMMs.
>
> Don't let that stop you.  The sporadic hardware fault is
> causing you far more grief than a slightly slower system
> would.

Lilo would fix that.  A slightly slower system also would not have the 
three ISA slots that this one does.

Anyone else have linux unzip problems on the bl3-32fd.zip file?

I can also boot with the .tgz file of BL2 on a Win9X formatted floppy disk 
and with DR-DOS on hard drive, instead of Win98X DOS floppy disk and .tgz 
on hard drive.

Something to do with how the FAT system works (FAT12 floppy disk) which I 
don't really understand.

It has something to do with how the motherboard was designed but why is it 
intermittent?  Now working about 4/5 of the time.  Corrosion burning off? 
Weather dependent?  New working computers are no challenge.

 > > Cheers,
> Steven
>
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