Kris Steenhaut wrote:
 
> tstevic{at}siscom.net wrote:
 
> >   at 11:13 AM, singlewc{at}eudoramail.com said:

> >>>How does one get the 'recovery options' prompt to appear
> >>>so a person can choose to proceed with the boot, reset to
VGA,  go to a
> >>>command prompt, etc.

> >>Press ALT F1 when the little white box appears in the upper left corner
> >>during boot up.

> I've an eCS installation here without the bells and whistles, and that's
> the procedure to get it(as it is in Warp 4):
 
> RMB on desktop --> properties --> tab archive --> check on
"Display
> recovery choices at each system startup".
 
> As I hate bells and whistles, I can't inform you whether this shows up
> properly in the "bells and whistles"-enabled eCS. 

The bells & whistles remove it. I enabled it by using a hex editor on
\OS2\BOOT\ARCHBASE.$$$. 01 at Byte D9 enables the menu on every boot. 00
there disables it (the default). The number of seconds to display are
bytes DD & DE, which is 9 seconds in mine using DD=09 and DE=00. I
figured this out shortly after eCS install and having this same idiotic
problem. I changed on my old box in the archive tab, then inspected the
file to see what changed. 999 seconds makes the DD/DE bytes E7 03.
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