Hello David!

  DL> This may be one of those cases where you start wonderering if
    > you were dreaming the original fault :-)

I can't seem to find a disk image that will let me re-create the
diagnostic partition (the one I downloaded from Compaq lets you run
diags from a diskette).  I don't need (or even want) the diagnostic
partition, but I can't reproduce my boot problem without it.  :-/

Regards,
  - Andy Ball.