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- From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 wants to boot from A: every time??
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:05:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.020857.14466@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- >pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
- >: I have a problem with my newly configured OS/2 system -- every time
- >: I start it it will load about 1/2 of the desktop and then it will
- >: access the a: drive for about a minute or so before continuing.
- >: If I open up the prompts window it has the "boot dos from a:" highlighted
- >: but it is not in the startup folder and I tried doing a "refresh"
- >: before a shutdown.
- >
- >Try doing a left_contrl - left_shift - F1 when the initial desktop
- >background comes up and hold it down. This should disable any automatic
- >startups.
- >
- >I haven't tried this yet. But to cure this and to prevent further occurrences
- >of this, you can also try modifying the "AUTOSTART" in the config.sys.
- >
- Do I do this -every- time or just the first time?
-
-
- >hope this helps
- >
- Thanks.
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