On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:48:13 -0600, Phil Parker wrote:

>
>Since I can boot to a command line via Alt-F1 at the boot blob, then
>Alt-whatever, I believe that means everything in config-sys loads and runs
>except the WPS itself (pmshell.exe etc.). If I'm incorrect, I'll have to try
>this.


You have made the wrong assumption.  The boot from alt-F1 uses a
different config.sys (actually it uses \os2\boot\config.x). 
Therefor, any changes you have made since that file was created
will not be processed.

And since you have brought this up, if you want to be
adverturesome, you could always boot to the commandline (or as Kris
suggested, use the management console  when booting from the CD)
and then rename your config.x to something else, like config.x.sav
and then copy your existing config.sys to \os2\boot\config.x.

Then boot again to the Alt-F1 commandline.  If it is successful,
and if you can run chkdsk /f (or /f:2) then you might be able to
safely make the statements that the config.sys loads ok.

As for alt-f2, it has been my experience that the last driver you
see load before the desktop is PMShell.  If it is indeed failing at
the desktop load then you should see drivers up to PMShell.  What I
don't know is if there is a problem with the desktop does this also
mean there is a problem w/ pmshell.

The advise given to run chkdsk from a maintenance partition is the
best advise.  And the advise to run it from the CD is the quickest
way to do this if you don't have a maintenance partition.  Bootos2
doesn't work anymore because the drivers are too big and won't fit
on floppies.  The CD has been an outstanding replacement for the
lack of a bootable solution.

Unless you have weird hardware, you should be able to boot from the
CD, accept all the defaults, enter your registration and instead of
selecting install choose the little checkbox that (IIRC) is near
the lower left portion of the screen.

Running chkdsk this way assures you are operating on files that are
not in use.  

Good luck,
jon



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