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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
- Message-ID: <19930103.141533.74@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 17:15:30 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Error Code List
- Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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- X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- References: <105945@bu.edu>
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- In <105945@bu.edu> William Heiser writes:
- >Is there available a list of the error codes for OS/2?
- >One of the things I've always hated about IBM is the way they
- >report things like "sys01475" with absolutely no clue what that
- >really means. Even a short string like "invalid boot block" or
- >something would be useful.
- >
- >For example, this morning my machine wouldn't boot - at the point where
- >the boot manager usually takes over, the machine simply said:
- >
- >OS/2 !! Sys01475
- >OS/2 !! Sys02027
- >
- >How useful! (NOT!)
- >
- >I was about to start a re-install, and in the process discovered that
- >a non-bootable floppy was in drive A:. Why didn't OS/2 boot manager
- >just SAY that???
- Those messages basically translate to "Non System Disk, please ReBOOT". It
- was decided for OS/2 V2 to change the text to message numbers to allow for
- NLS considerations. The idea was to document the specific text for each NLS
- version of OS/2 V2. Unfortunately, that documentation is hard to find (if it
- exists at all). There's a lot of discussion on this internally, including
- what to do instead. Below is the description of each message:
-
- SYS1475: The file OS2BOOT cannot be found.
- SYS2025: A disk read error occurred.
- SYS2027: Insert a system diskette and restart the system.
-
- As for other system messages, there's no one source for them. The best you
- can try is to type HELP #### where ### is the error number at an OS/2 command
- prompt. The ones listed above won't be there, but most others will.
-