Reboot failure after vacation!

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Klugers,
I just returned from a trip overseas and turned on my pentium 166 system
to start up LINUX (running from RH 6.1 on BSWare 6.1 CDROM) and got lots
of errors which became less noisy and hopeless until I got to the prompt
just before asking which OS I wanted to use when, after the usual delay,
it starts printing 01 01 01 01 ... continuously.  It does so after several
reboot attempts.  Fortunately I did make a backup diskette and am able to
boot from it.  I'm guessing that my boot sector is bad but I'm not sure
how to restore it.   I do not have a 'rescue' disk at this point.

A second problem is that once up in LINUX, my Practical Peripherals
external modem fails to work.  ifup ppp2 seems to work fine and looks ok
in the control panel and the lights on the modem seem to show attempts to
pick up the line and dial but that does not happen at all, as verified by
listening on a phone on that line.  The OH and ... light never light up at
all.  Seems that the modem is dead (lightning peak should not have a been
a problem since I'm passing the line through a gounded line protector).
The modem as well as the computer had been turned off but not disconnected
from the line(s).

One possibility for both problems is that in my initial difficulties, I
had to change the BIOS setting for the CPU to be 166MHz instead of the 150
which showed up there.  Also in shutting down,  I have an error message
about a system map error.  I haven't a clue how to proceed.  Any
suggestions?


Meantime,   Hope all have recuperated from the holidays and will remember
to write 00, not 99,

	Best for new century,    Ralph   deal@kzoo.edu