Problems....Like, real big

[Toby Reiter <treiter@cs.oberlin.edu>]

Ok,
I have a IIgs which is having the following problems:
a) It can no longer boot off the normal boot disk (I already tried
reinstalling the system software.
b) I can't boot off the other partition on which I have a system 6.0.x 
folder set up (it crashes right after loading Prodos.FST)
c) I WAS able to boot off that partition when it had System 1.0 on it.
d) I copied files off of my original boot partition to another HFS
partition.  However, none of the copied applications will run (they end up
in a $1104(?) error.
e) When I boot off of the System 6.0.1 System disk (the one on Apple ftp
site), I can only see 2 partitions.  The partitions which I can see
changes.  When I enabled the Ramfast ROM disk, I was only able to see one
partition and the ramfast rom disk.
f) All the disks are accessible through Prodos8, however, when I tried
accessing them within basic.system, I couldn't see some of them.
g) When I tried running Orca.Sys16 (just for kicks) from basic, it through
me into Prodos8
h) Even though I have reinstalled the SYSTEM folder and ProDOS on my
original boot partition, it states UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS when I try to
load it (or hangs in Ramfast.system when I select it as the boot
partition after quitting.)

That's about as many problems as any person can handle. Here are the
specifics of my system:

ROM 01 IIgs,
5 megs of RAM on a AE RAM GS+
Ramfast 256k Rev.B ROM 3.00 connected to an APS hard drive w/217 megs.
-this has been seperated into partitions
	Kenobi= original boot disk, System 6.0.1,ProDOS (duh), 32 megs
	Planet= HFS, 117 megs, this is where I backed up Kenobi (it is
		also always the second drive which appears on the desktop
		when booting through System 6.0.1.
	Applications= alternative boot disk, System 6.0.1 (used to be
		      System 1.0), ProDOS, 32 megs
	Games=	ProDOS, 32 megs
	Programming= ProDOS, 32 megs
	Communications= ProDOS, 32 megs

I tried Verifying both Kenobi and Planet.  When I have tried copying
the saved files from Planet back to Kenobi to run them, none of them
worked.  As far as I can tell, applications on the Games, Programming,
Communication, and Applications partitions will all work.  I'm not sure
about Planet (although they were working last night (I was already having
problems at that time).  I have been, for the past month or so, been
booting off Kenobi using exclusively Prodos 8 (i.e. by hitting 8 at
boot-up), but I just got this problem two days ago.  At that time, I was
still able to boot into Prodos 8 off Kenobi.  I do not have any backups of
the drive, and I do not have any disk utility software (i.e. Prosel 16,
etc).  I also do not currently have any money to buy them.  I do not have
another IIgs, nor do I imagine there is any IIgs within a 1-3 days walk (I
have no car).  I know this is probably a pretty big problem, and I realize
that part of what I was doing was stupid, but if anyone has any ideas for
me I would appreciate it.
	Oh, one more thing, when I installed a new system onto Kenobi
before formatting it, it was able to work, however, I still got several
error messages than the Kenobi disk was corrupted (especially the
System.Setup folders and Icons folder).  After formatting, Kenobi would no
longer boot.

I hope someone had an idea for me......



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