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
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