🚀 go-pugleaf

Robin,

The most likely cause of this problem is that you have booted to DOS
while you were already in the DOS operating system.  Or the reverse,
booting to OS/2 while you were in OS/2.  What appears to happen is that
the image files for the BOOT TO system are written before the
application recognizes that it is at the wrong place.  Then it tells
you about it.  Unfortunately, ...

It is possible to recover.  Not easy, but possible.  You could try
correcting the image files for the alternate operating system.  They are
probably in ?:\OS2\BOOT or the ?:\.

Alternate:  BOOT /OS2, (Yes you get the error message.)
                Boot from diskette
                Execute SYSINSTX C:\  from your diskettes.
                This should allow you to bootup in OS/2.  Now
                BOOT /DOS  (If it works fine.)
                If not, boot from your DOS diskettes and use SYS C:

Sorry, about possible reference errors.  I am writing this using WIN98
because I cannot locate working (and documented) OS/2 drivers for this
embedded Lucent DSP modem.  Thus, I cannot check the references.

This problem seems to occur most frequently to users who prefer to use
FULL SCREEN OS/2 sessions.  It is easy to forget whether you are in DOS
or OS/2 when returning from a short break.

Jack

robin wrote:

> Suddenly I can't dual boot.  I'm stuck in DOS.
> An attempt to dual boot back to OS/2 gives the message:
>
> SYS1313 An error has occurred while reading or writing to the
> hard disc partition.
>
> which occurs immediately after giving the command
> to dual boot.
>
> Does anyone know how to recover from this problem?
> I suspect that it occurs when the boot sector is being
> re-written so as to start up OS/2.
>
> Thanks, Robin