Re: HELP!! GS/OS 6.0.1 failure!

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Dave Althoff writes ...
> 
> ARGHS!!
> 
> Last night before I went to bed, I quit AnsiTERM 2.12, and shut off my
> monitor before the Finder came back up.
> 
> This morning when I got up, instead of the familiar Finder, I had an error
> message about an infinite loop while walking the icon list.
> 
> I restarted.  The system crashed during startup with a GS/OS error $47 or
> something like that.
> 
> I restarted, this time holding <SHIFT>.  The system appeared to hang.
> 
> I don't remember what all else I did, but as it now stands, when I try to
> boot, I get this GS/OS system error, and when I try to shift-boot, I get a
> message that the Finder requires GS/OS 6.0.1 and 300k of memory (which I
> have; it's a 5.25Mb system).
> 
> I am able to restart using a floppy (actually I am using a Prosel-16 disk)
> and I can see all the hard drive partitions.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I am about ready to reinstall GS/OS, but some parts of
> the OS are patched to allow for unusual filenames, and I can't remember
> which files are patched (I think it's just P8 and BASIC.SYSTEM and
> PRO.FST, but I am not certain...)
> 
> I'm really really really in trouble here...it's my primary machine...
>

 ....

     Try booting GS/OS from a floppy. Go to the Icons/ folder on your
hard disk boot partition and delete the file named "Desktop".

     You may have other Icons/ folders on other partitions which contain
a Desktop file. These _may_ need to be deleted to get the one causing
problems. Usually, scrapping Icons/Desktop on the boot partition clears
up the glitch.



 
> --Dave Althoff, ][., whose IIgs has never crashed before...

     My system crashes very seldom. One thing that seems to help is
using the Quick Launch Finder extra to start most programs. (I delete
Desktop from the boot partition Icons/ folder whenever I notice that it
has been created.)



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Rubywand