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mfstools problem
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Posted by: Zarnce

Has anyone ever had a problem booting with a MFSTool CD?
Every time I try to book (no matter how many or few HD I have in the machine)
It freezes at the IDE detection phase. Just for kicks I threw in the slack install disk and it booted fine. Any ideas. I need to replace my A drive because it died. I have an image but I can't get MFSTools to boot so I can create a new A disk.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Zarnce

Posted by: Robert S

It's not that uncommon to have booting problems. The kernel on those disks is very old.

MFS Tools will run under any version of Linux - I tend to use Tom's Root and Boot Disk, but your Slackware boot disk should be OK (try Alt-F2 for a second prompt) - just copy the mfstool binary from the CD to the root of your C: drive.

Once you've mounted the hard drive as per Hinsdale, you can run MFS Tools as

/mnt/dos/mfstool backup <etc>

instead of mfsbackup.

Posted by: Gomer Pyle

Or use the floppy.

Posted by: Zarnce

I tried the floppy. Same thing.

Good idea though

Posted by: Nuwanda

Zarnce,
I found the other day that everything went much better when I told the computer to use legacy settings when dealing with the hd (in BIOS). I am not sure what that does, but it worked like a champ.

Nuwanda