Fixed, found that somewhere on the USB bus a memory stick was plugged in which shows a Window$ 98 splash screen at boot up, although it was newly formatted... These viruses get more and more intelligent,,, Pffff.... Rein PA0R > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Gesendet: 22.07.07 10:39:56 > An: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > CC: Skip <hteller@xxxxxxxxxxx>, w1hkj@xxxxxxxxx > Betreff: [pskmail] Warning: Puppy experience. > OK, I tried it. I wanted to see if I could not add pskmail to puppy. > > when I rebooted from the puppy 1.17 CD this morning a Windows98 screen > flashed by and then I got the message: > > quote > The following file is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM > Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM) > unquote > > The laptop is now dead, and I will have to try and find a solution. Looks > like Grub has disappeared. > > I am pertinently sure the laptop contained Windows XP and UBUNTU 6.06 LTS > before I > started playing with the puppy CD. > > This will take some time to fix... I cannot tell you how glad I am... > > 73, > > Rein PA0R > > (you can spare the 'this never happended before' messages, it did happen here > and now.) > > > -- > http://pa0r.blogspirit.com > > > > -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com