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.