TITLE:              "!!! Stacker not found to relocate..."
DOCUMENT ID:        TID015059
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               22Feb1994
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
README FOR:         NA

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NOVELL DOS 7.0

ABSTRACT:
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SYMPTOMS:

1.   The following message was returned:

     "!!! Stacker not found to relocate - nothing done."

2.   In another case, instead of getting an error message, the user
would see the Starting DOS message, a blank line, then the machine
hung.

3.   When the user tried to boot from a Novell 7 floppy diskette, the
machine still hung.

CAUSES:

1.   This message indicates that the STACKER.BIN device driver is not
loaded and cannot be put into Upper Memory by the STACHIGH device
driver.

2.   In this case, the STACKER.BIN file was corrupt.

3.   This problem may be caused by Novell DOS trying to load
STACKER.BIN from the host drive.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

2.   The user noticed that the STACKER.BIN file was about 2 KB.

SOLUTIONS:

1.   The STACKER.BIN device driver needs to be in the root directory
of the bootable partition.  STACKER.BIN has the (R)ead only,
(H)idden, and (S)ystem attributes attached to it.

STACKER.BIN can be reinstalled by copying the file from another
working copy of Novell DOS 7.0 or by using the following steps:

     1.   Copy PNUNPACK.EXE and ATTRIB.EXE to the hard disk from the
          #1 ND7 diskette.
     2.   Remove the (R)(H)(S) attributes on the STACKER.BIN existing
          driver (if it exists).
     3.   Delete STACKER.BIN from the bootable partition.
     4.   Copy STACKLOAD.BI_ and STACKER.CO_ from the ND7
          installation diskettes (diskette #4) to the bootable
          partition.
     5.   PNUNPACK STACLOAD.BI_ AND STACKER.CO_
     6.   COPY /B STACLOAD.BIN+STACKER.COM STACKER.BIN
     7.   ATTRIB +RHS STACKER.BIN
     8.   Reboot the system off the hard disk.

2.   Copying a STACKER.BIN file from another machine fixed the
problem.

3.   In this case, the user had to boot with the DR DOS 6.0 diskette
to access the host partition.

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