Ray Davison schrieb:
> Herbert Rosenau wrote:
> 
>>Ray Davison schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>Boot stops hard; CAD has no effect.
>>>altf2on.$$$ is active.
>>>The last thing written to the screen is "installed
DANIDASD.DMD" - 
>>>same result with OS2DASD.
>>>That statement is past tense.  But, was DASD really installed and the 
>>>hang is on whatever followed, or did DASD hang?
>>>
>>
>>
>>Press Alt+F5 when the white blob shows up. 
> 
> 
> Are you referring to the rectangle in the upper left corner with OS/2 
> next to it? 

Yes. I grt it here on a mashine only whit tricks too:
When the mashine starlts leaving BIOS hold the fingers ready. You can 
even nervous top the keys in a quick sequence. Staying on the keys 
does NOT help - but dipping them both quickly....

  It is not there long enough to do anything.  I didn't
> recall seeing it lately so I booted an AMD 550.  On that machine it 
> was there for maybe half a second.  On newer machines I mostly never 
> detect it at all.  I seem to recall a time when it stayed a while.
> 
> What I need is a mode that gives me the option of loading or skipping 
> each line.  Is that what Alt-F is supposed to do?

Exactly tHat is it. It will ask for allowance to load each and 
anything.  So you can left out a driver, a  'run', a 'start' ....

> Is there a counterpart to putting altf2on.$$$ in the boot dir?

I dont know.

> 
>>That will step through 
>>anything that gets loaded during boot process. Sou yoou would know 
>>exactly what was loaded when a hung or crash occures.


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Herbert Rosenau
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