os24u{at}wisdomtree.info wrote:

> 3.7  INSTALL DISKETTES OR UTILITY DISKETTES HANG ON BOOT (APAR JR12065)
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> Diskette 1 of the Install or Utility diskette sets may appear to hang on
> boot, waiting for a removable media device to respond.  To avoid:
>
> 1.  Edit the CONFIG.SYS on Diskette 1 of the set
>
> 2.  REMark out the basedev=ibmint13.i13 statement and save the file.
>
> 3.  Reboot
>
>What about this?  Cal
>
>** Reply to note from "Mike O'Connor"
 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:47:00 +1000
>  
>
>>rvgreen{at}telusplanet.net wrote:  
>>    
>>
>>> This started when I tried to install beta 3. After making 
>>> sekections on the preliminary pages,I thn press Alt-F2 as I uusually 
>>> do. I get a whole list of the files that are installed. But it stops 
>>> with the line with the line "installed ibmlvm.dmd"
>>
>>>The system is not frozen;cad will reboot it. No mouse,at that
time of course.
>>>This has occured with this computer here . . . . . 
>>>
>>As a first step on above machine with *two* optical drives - I'd
remove  one of them just for the installation!
>>    
>>
Hi Cal & Vic,

One can learn a _lot_ reading through the APAR listings!
Also I don't think that Vic knows this, but the boot procedure doesn't 
put the "installed" message up there on screen until after it has 
successfully loaded the driver/run the command etc., so it's the last 
successful loading that is the final line written to the screen, and 
it's thus the next one that is actually failing!

Simple enough to test  - use a "message string"** with a utility like 
delay.sys, and stick an instance with e.g. a 5 second pause associated 
with all statements in config.sys that write to the screen, when 
attempting to resolve boot problems in _unusual_  conditions - like 
booting with minimal boot partitions, with virtually all of the OS/2-eCS 
tree on a different diskand even the desktop and os2*.ini files not on 
the !

** from delay.doc in delay.zip:

    The DELAY driver - version 1.7
    ------------------------------

    This is a simple OS/2 device driver for providing a timed delay during
    system startup from CONFIG.SYS.  It is useful in situations where
    several
    machines are being brought up at the same time, but some must not
    proceed
    past a certain point until others are fully functional.  It is also
    very
    useful when a message from some device driver scrolls by on the screen
    too fast to be read or analyzed.

    Installation
    ============
    Copy DELAY.SYS to a convenient directory; it does not have to be on your
    boot disk, and it may be convenient to keep it elsewhere if you are in
    the habit of reformatting it to install new versions or betas of OS/2!

    Usage
    =====
    To insert a delay of up to 30 minutes in a CONFIG.SYS file for OS/2,
    insert the following statement in CONFIG.SYS and reboot the system
    (optional parts are shown here in square brackets):

            DEVICE=d:\path\DELAY.SYS [/K] mm:ss [message]

THE [/K] means continue if a keystroke is entered at the keyboard - 
primarily when there would otherwise be a significant wait until it 
timed-out. Also the minutes can be omitted - is understood then to be 
just seconds.

like:

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
DEVICE=:\os2\boot\pause.sys /K 05 that was OS2DASD.DMD that just loaded
BASEDEV=OS2LVM.DMD
DEVICE=:\os2\boot\pause.sys /K 05 that was OS2LVM.DMD that just loaded
BASEDEV=CHKDSK.SYS
DEVICE=:\os2\boot\pause.sys /K 05 that was CHKDSK.SYS that just loaded
RUN=  . . . . . . .
DEVICE=:\os2\boot\pause.sys /K 05 that was os2lvm.dmd that just loaded
.
.
RUN=E:\OS2\SYSTEM\LVMALERT.EXE
DEVICE=:\os2\boot\pause.sys /K 05 that was LVMALERT.EXE that just loaded

ETC.

IIRC, it was Bob Eager who provided this little gem!

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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