Boot up error

One of my network users started getting this error out of nowhere during boot up.
Cannot find a device that may be needed to run Windows or a Windows application.

The windows registry or system.ini file refers to this device file but it no longer exists.

If you deleted it on purpose etc etc.

lvcd
press a key to continue

The machine then boots ok.

The box is running W98, second edition, 333 cyrix, 32 mb Ram, netware client and a 10/100 NIC. It was ghosted from a master cd that is used for @30 boxes. Operators are pretty much locked out of system stuff so I really don’t think they deleted anything.

Any help would be appreciated.