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Article #499Boot Failures--Was<IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???>
From: David Ebdon
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 21:47
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 21:47
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Tom Wilson's remark in a previous post reminds me how I solved a boot failure problem when I first put OS/2 on my 486-33 clone. Actually my 20 year old son solved it. We were using the dual boot procedure, and the system "forgot" how to come up in OS/2. First we "sys-ed" it back to life and then changed MS-DOS 5.0 for the IBM version (keeping qbasic.exe from MS-DOS so that it and edit.com would remain functional). We then reinstalled OS/2, again in the dual boot mode. So far there have been no more boot failures. Is there some problem with generic MS-DOS and OS/2? Or would I have had the same good luck by simply reinstalling OS/2? I tend to think not since some problems with the DOS windows, experienced before the change in DOS, disappeared. One of my colleagues today reported that some network software which had frequently failed became very reliable when MS-DOS was replaced by IBM-DOS 5.0--even on non-IBM (Zenith) hardware. Our network software is from IBM. Hmmm. -- David Ebdon College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Eastern Illinois University cfdwe@eiu.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cts.eiu.edu!cfdwe From: cfdwe@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (David Ebdon) Subject: Boot Failures--Was<IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???> Message-ID: <1992Sep08.214711.25892@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 21:47:11 GMT References: <1992Aug29.104619.1323@dlpinc00.rn.com> <1992Aug29.125049.3797@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Sep8.021953.11859@rock.concert.net> Organization: Eastern Illinois University Lines: 21