Hello,

This could be semi-OT, but I hope some of our list members with dual boot

experience can help me.

I have a Sony Vaio PCG-C1XS that I have fixed up to dual boot Windows98 a nd SuSE Linux. Two weeks ago I updated the SuSE Linux side from 7.0 to 7.2.

Update seemed to go pretty well, and afterwards I booted into the linux s ide. Looked pretty good, so I shut down and went to bed. (Yep, another late night update ;-) Yesterday, I needed to boot into Windows to do somethin g for my wife, but after the Windows98 splash screen came up, it reverted t o the DOS screen and showed the error message that there was insufficient memory. I was prompted to hit any key, and when I did,

t could not find \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS. I confirmed that the file is there, b ut when I open it using the editor, it appears to be corrupted. It starts w ith about 40 lines of garbage characters that look like what a binary file lo oks like when you open it in vi. After the garbage, it looks

was overwritten by system error output.

As I see it, I could fix this one of two ways - rewrite

e or use the recovery CD to restore the drive. I moved to NetBSD and then Lin ux from a Mac OS background, so I don't have a lot of experience fine-tuning

DOS/Windows configuration files. Rewriting HIMEM.SYS would be a bit of a n adventure, but if someone here knows what I should put in

ld probably do it.

I hesitate to use the recovery CD, because I suspect it will remove my li nux partition as well as everything I put on the notebook on

in the time I have been using it. Is that the case, or will it just restore the system files that are there?

As I mentioned, this may be somewhat off-topic, since I am asking more fo r Windows info than I am for linux info, but I trust you more to help me preserve my linux system. I would appreciate whatever help you could off er.

TIA, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze theo.schulze@myokay.net

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Ok, My recommendation is to completely replace himem.sys Have you not got another copy of it in "c:\" instead of "c:\windows"??? Incidentally you cannot "re-write" himem.sys.... Your only option is to replace it. You'll probably find one on your Win98 bootdisk floppy (you know the one which you made.....you did make one, didn't you?? :-)) --Thomas Adam the system said i like HIMEM.SYS the HIMEM.SYS fil the file, I cou the Windows side the technology th the

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