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Im trying to figure out why my OS / 2 installation will occasionally just does not boot! Its Runnin on an IBM machine 300Mhz, 256MB RAM, hardware, everything is fine b / c would run w / a glitch consecutive months . then outta the blue on a restart will not pass the black screen I get black after the OS / 2 splash screen. Try as I might I NEVER past this screen . No matter how long I wait!
anyone this experience . probably not .
Anyone know where some good help to get this? : D (next to where they want even www.ibm.com MOREmone?)
ANY help is greatly appreciated!
God Bless!
guy
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Re:guy: I don't pretend to know what the setup at your job is, but, I have never seen a properly configured OS/2 workstation take longer than 60 seconds to boot up.
Your systems booting from long scripts tells me that you are probably running blackbird, which loads the OS over the Network. If this is true then your load times are not in the OS, but in the limit of the wire.
As for Netscape maxing out 384MB of Memory with 3 windows, I also find that hard to believe and feel your problems there lie elsewhere. Probably in one or more of the apps that are loading in the background at bootup.
OS/2's memory management, while today may seem archaic, but at the time were the best out there, as was the rest of the OS. Bar none. As far as stability goes, a properly configured OS/2 workstation was/is faster and more stable than ANY Windows 9.x client out there.
Don't even get me started on the OS/2 vs NT thing.
All this said, it is WAY outdated now and even though I have the means to install it on my IBM Thinkpad T21 PIII800 laptop, I will not and just be happy running Linux on it. 
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Re:OS2 is the biggest POS I've ever used. We're on it at work right now. Management seems to think it's the most stable NOS and workstation OS there is. Too bad its memory management is horrible and using Netscape with three windows maxes out 384MB mem.
Boot time? Oh……six minutes on a workstation!!!
Sorry, I didn't mean to thread crap, but at my current job, we're on OS2 now when we were on win95/Novell and THAT was more stable as a workstation OS!!!
Again, sorry, just ranting. I don't have a fix for your problem as our machines boot from big long scripts.
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Re:IIRC, that's the screen where it's loading all the drivers…try booting, and pressing Alt-F2 (?), which should force it to display whatever driver it's loading at the bottom of the screen.
Other than that, try a cold boot, see if that clears the problem. Warm boots don't always initialize certain pieces of hardware (token ring nics for one.)
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Re:Are you running the latest FixPack?
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