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- Subject: Re: new Tseng4000 drivers blew up my system...
- Message-ID: <sJiXqB2w165w@folly.welly.gen.nz>
- From: andrew@folly.welly.gen.nz (Andrew McMillan)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 08:53:27 +1200
- References: <1992Sep9.115226.27181@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Organization: Andrew's Folly, Wellington, New Zealand
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- affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf "Affie" Hauser) writes:
-
- > |> board and my screen is transformed into static. Since, my screen is
- > |> completely illegible, it is impossible to delete the offending
- > |> line and I'm forced to re-install OS/2. I even tried using the
- > |> installation disk and disk #1 (typing ESC as recommended by the
- > |> FAQ) to get a system prompt, and it does work, BUT my hard drive
- > |> is not recognized.
- > |>
- > |> I've already done the re-install, but I sure would be grateful
- > |> if someone could clue me into an easier solution for the next
- > |> time.
- >
- > A friend of mine had the same: He installed a different video driver for his
- > TRIDENT adapter card but it didn't work.
- > So he wanted to boot with the installation disks but could not
- > access the hard disk (No boot manger, HPFS, no other partitions).
- > He then had to do a re-install, too.
- >
- > Anybody knowing the reason for that hidden disk ?
-
- If OS/2 is installed in a primary partition, and the system normally
- booted with boot manager, it won't be accessible from floppy boot
- unless you run FDisk and mark the partition active. That's what
- happens in DOS anyway, but I'm not completely sure about OS/2 as I
- have it installed to an extended partition.
-
- For the guy above, it might be OK to include the a: drive at the
- beginning of your 'LIBPATH' and then put a floppy in during bootup
- containing the drivers to be tested.
-
- I've tried this here, and it worked fine when I was testing the Tseng
- 4000 drivers on my system. It's important to have a blank floppy too
- though, as the system insists on searching that drive a lot during
- boot (not surprising, really!), and eventually gets stuck.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Andrew.
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