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[SOLVED] Stuck at "Loading system files. Please wait" OS/2 Warp 3
jamie marchant:
My compute froze at "Loading system files. Please wait" after I told it to NOT reformat my C: drive. This is on real hardware and from floppies. What do you suggest I do?
Dave Yeo:
How did you partition your drive? OS/2 needs partition boundaries to line up with cylinder boundaries.
Also what file system is C:
Olafur Gunnlaugsson:
--- Quote from: jamie marchant on July 25, 2020, 07:11:03 pm ---My compute froze at "Loading system files. Please wait" after I told it to NOT reformat my C: drive. This is on real hardware and from floppies. What do you suggest I do?
--- End quote ---
is this after an install or an upgrade?
If so this could simply be outdated drivers loaded from the diskette, download and updated boot floppy and replace the drivers on the disk by the ones from the floppy, or roll your own boot disks as below:
https://www.elstel.org/OS2Warp/InstallUpdate.html#OwnBootDisks
BTW the boot floppy format is DOS FAT so it can be done from any system including Win10 or Linux with a USB floppy
jamie marchant:
My dos partition was made with FreeDos but then resized when I tried an old Linux distro. How do I check that it's formatted correctly? I'll try those new drivers and edit my post/post here when I have done this.
jamie marchant:
I tried that "mod" and now I get a blank screen(well I did delete the logo) and my hard disk light stays on forever. This is NOT an upgrade I had MS-DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 on the Fat(I think it's Fat and NOT Fat32) drive before.(and FreeDos before that). This is a sort of eraish-appropriate laptop(IMB Thinkpad 380Z).
UPDATE: Riveted back to the old Disk 1 from an image I took before modifying it.
UPDATE#2: Went to a command prompt though the installer and checked the contents of disk2(which is the one where it freezes, disk2 seems to be ok). Also does not matter if I do the advanced or basic install.
UPADTE#3: Turns out that "mod" is for version 4 and I have version 3, so that's no good.
UPDATE#4: OS/2 has NOT been installed and now their is no sound in DOS, I have seen this before and it's when an OS incorrectly tries to initialize the sound card, so I guess setup was tying to probe hardware and failed, which also often leads to freezing. Latter, I'll try disabling the sound card for now and see if that works. I'll report back here after trying that.
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