System stops booting because of problem with COUNTRY.SYS

Last Updated: 27th November, 1994

Symptoms

During installation the following message appears: "The country information file A:\COUNTRY.SYS is incorrect. The system is stopped. Correct the preceding error and restart."

Hardware

3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives

Problem

CMOS not set up properly; it thought the 3.5" A: drive was a 5.25" drive and that the 5.25" B: drive was a 3.5" drive.

Fix

Correct the CMOS settings.

Notes

This could happen as the result of a bad CMOS battery, or from swapping the diskette drive cables and forgetting to re-set the CMOS information to match the change.

This page is part of Frank McKenney's Warp Installation Notes, a major contribution to the Warp Pharmacy project.