Need IIGS booting help

[JoSuFarris@AOL.com]

I'm new to your group, so I'll try to be brief for the time being.  In
trying to deal with a misbehaving DB file in AW5, I have got myself in
a situation I'be never had before.  My IIGS with extra memory, an
external Q-Drive (5 partitions) & Vitesse's Salvation Supreme won't
boot properly.  If I boot from Slot 7 as normal I'm directly in the
Finder with the 5 "discs" displayed -- but there is a dialog box that
says there two Q1's and I must either "eject" one of them or rename it.
 If I rename it then goes through the same routine with the other
volumes and starts again with Q1 under its new name.  I can't get rid
of the dialogue box to open any of the volumes.  I can get to the
Control Panel and try to boot through Slot 5, but it says "Insert disc
Q1."  If I try any other bootable floppy disc it says "check startup
device."  (Q1 -- on the hard drive only --contains my usual start-up
software.)

If anyone can help me here, I'll be foreever in that person's debt.  If
telephone communication seems most appropriate I'll suppky a number and
ayone may call me collect.) Then, of course, I'll be back to my
original problem trying to load an AppleWorks file and getting the
"prompt" "Having trouble reading file... at Q2..." etc.  It always
starts to load, but always stops on the same record.

I hope I've at least given you all food for thought, but desperately
hoping for hands=-n help.  Many thanks!

John Farris
Gaiensville VA