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Messages - Gary_W

#1
Hardware / Re: Advice needed please
2008.02.21, 22:51:18
I'm posting this question here to keep it all in 1 thread.

Anyway, I loaded the OS/2 Warp 4 image into a virtual PC instance and it runs just fine.  Now I need to "install virtual machine additions" in the virtual Pc software in order to allow the virtual OS/2 to share a folder with the host system (I need to dump data out of the DB2 database).  To do this, the virtual OS/2 needs to be at fixpack15.  I loaded that ok.  I install the virtual machine additions and on reboot it pukes with error c0000005 in DOSCALL1.DLL.  After much searching and investigating, I found I could press ALT-F2 at reboot and see the dlls as they are loaded.  Turns out this line in config.sys is the culprit:
device=c:\os2\install\preload\prel_img.sys c:\os2\install\preload\welcome.rgb 5
Commenting it out allows it to boot and share the folder just fine. 

Am I ok leaving this commented out?  What is prel_img.sys?  Loads a picture into memory?  It appears to be displaying a welcome screen so who cares, right?  I just want to make sure this is not a sign of a bigger issue.

Thanks a million!

Gary
#2
Hardware / Re: Advice needed please
2008.02.01, 22:24:19
Thanks for the info.
#3
Hardware / Re: Advice needed please
2008.02.01, 18:21:11
Thanks for the info, I'll post my progress.

Yeah, I'm having fun playing with this machine.  OS/2 was ahead of its time, that's for sure!  I would love to drop a second CPU in there since it has a dual-cpu board.  Right now it has a Pentium Pro 200Mhz/256M cache in it.

Gary
#4
Hardware / Re: Advice needed please
2008.01.31, 22:53:17
Hello Robert, thanks for your reply.

It's OS/2 Warp 4 on an IBM PC 365.  The USB port is on the motherboard.  I am looking to use a USB storage device to copy data off of it.

Thanks for any info!

Gary
#5
Hardware / Update: Success!
2008.01.31, 22:27:22
I'm back at this after getting sidetracked, and thought I'd give an update.

I copied the disk following your suggestions and the copied drive works in the new system but it hung trying to load a video driver (I think).  Hitting ALT-F1 at bootup and selecting VGA mode took care of it.  I downloaded an appropriate driver for the video card I have and am about to install it.

If you can point me to a USB driver, I will be grateful!

Thanks for your assistance, and I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to this.

Gary
#6
Hardware / Re: Advice needed please
2007.09.24, 21:19:24
Thanks for the info everyone!  More info on the system and what I tried:

Disks are IDE, not SCSI.  Current disk: 1gig (with a FAT-16 format), new disk: 3gig.  I connected the new disk as a slave and booted from the bootable imaging tools' boot disks.  I used the Diskpatch disk clone tool, and also tried imaging by partition via Bootit with the same results.  These tools just do a bit for bit copy or so I thought.  That is why I was surpised I had issues after cloning.

I do not have any OS/2 disks, I will see if I can get some. I will keep y'all posted.

Gary

#7
Hardware / Advice needed please
2007.09.19, 23:32:08
Hello everyone, I am new to the forum and to OS/2 so please go easy on me :-)

I have an IBM PC750 running OS/2 Warp from a 1 gig hard drive.  I am trying to clone the drive to a newer 3 gig drive for preventative measure due to the age of the current drive.  The new drive is good as it checks out with Spinrite.  The clone is successful, but when I install the new drive it boots to "OS/2 !! SYS03147" Which after some searching I find to mean the os2ldr.msg file is invalid.

How can this be?  Is it possible the OS/2 installation is dependent on the drive geometry and thus will not work on a new drive with different cyl/head/sectors than the installation drive?  Otherwise I cannot guess why a clone would not work.

Thanks for any info!

Gary