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Date: | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:25:41 PDT |
From: | "Gary Granat" <ggranat@earthlink.net > |
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Subject: | SCOUG-Help: TRAP0003 |
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:14:49 PDT, Steven Levine wrote:
>>OK. I've tried this approach, but no joy, so far, so I haven't found the
>>offending driver. Every boot comes back with the same TRAP0003 that
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>It would be nice if this were faster, but we don't get to make the
>choices. You have lots left to REM out. I notice you ran one of the
>CONFIG.SYS beautifiers. I will assume that you ran it a long time ago and
>it is not the source of your probems.
About three years ago, to be precise. No, it has nothing to do with this
issue.
>BASEDEV=IBM2FLPY.ADD
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>This is the driver for and MCA attached floppy you don't need it at all.
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>This can be REM'ed out.
OK. I'll do most of the ones you suggest. My biggest concern was to have
enough stuff loaded to achieve a running system. I'm hazy on the issue of the
"RUN" statements and what impact these might have on a system that can't even
display the boot logo before trapping.
>Do you have WinUgly installed on this box? I still suspect something
>changed in the Thinkpad configuration to cause all this.
If you mean WIN-OS2, yes, I do. There are a couple of programs I run
occasionally that are Win3.1 vintage.
As far as changes are concerned, I think it is time to define change. I
completely agree that SOMETHING has changed, but it hasn't been something "new"
installed or anything like that. What sort of change are you trying to find?
If you want to get specific, every system changes, as a natural part of the
computing process every day. I don't think that is what you are getting at,
however. Over the three years I have been running this box, I have made
occasional tuning changes (mostly tweaks to HPFS, redirecting the swapper file,
etc.). I always keep a backup of the previous config.sys, and I have every one
of them back to June of 1998 when I did the first OS/2 install. If you need to
see them, let me know.
>RESOURCE.SYS is loaded automatically as are a couple of other drivers.
But, what is its purpose in life, and what ar the dependencies?
>BTW, what are the specs on your Thinkpad? Model? Disk? RAM?
>Partitions? Other OS's?
Sorry, I should have listed this at the outset:
ThinkPad 380XD (7635-8AU), 3.1GB Toshiba HDD, 64MB memory.
Partitions: C: FAT (Windows NT Workstation 4.0)
D: HPFS (OS/2 System Partition)
E: HPFS (OS/2 Apps)
F: HPFS (OS/2 Utilities/Windows 3.1 Apps)
System includes a CD-ROM Drive.
>It would be helpful if you had a dump partition, but that might be
>difficult to setup at the moment.
Yeah, a lot of things would be helpful (see below).
>Turning one of your data partition into a BOOTOS2 partition should be no
>real problem. We can do the file copies by hand.
I downloaded and looked at BOOTOS2 this afternoon. My biggest concern is that
whatever is "infecting" the installed system would get transferred to the
BOOTOS2 system. Otherwise, there is sufficient space on the E: partition to
install it. If I'm going to be hand-copying stuff, why not concentrate on what
is installed?
>I notice that you have BA2PRO installed. Do you have a working backup and
>restore procedure in place?
As it happens, I do have a backup of the partition, done back in May. The
biggest problem is that I'm dreadfully short of local storage space on the
ThinkPad, and the backup resides on one of the partitions on my base system (a
DFI from Indelible Blue). If I had some way to establish a network connection,
given that I can only achieve a running system with the utility disk set, I'd
be willing to do a restore -- provided I had enough control to share the
partition with the big system. So, I guess the answer is that a restore
procedure is not in place. I recognize this as a deficiency, but haven't
solved the logistics, to date.
>Stop in at the IRC help desk if you have time this evening and we can
>continue this.
Wish I could have made it, but had other obligations.
--gary
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