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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:08:01 PDT
From: "Gary Granat" <ggranat@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: < "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject: SCOUG-Help: TRAP0003

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:48:51 PDT, Steven Levine wrote:

>>Nope. Get the same TRAP0003.
>
>OK. Sure sounds like you something changed in the Thinkpad configuration.
>Alt-F1 boots from \os2\boot\config.x which, since most folks don't know
>about arcinst, is very different from config.sys.

I agree that something has changed, but I can't identify what. I did some
system tuning in early August, but those changes had run successfully for over
a week. I always keep backup copies of CONFIG.SYS, and I even tried restoring
one from late July, but it still trapped. I have just finished running
hardware diagnostics on the ThinkPad (not a very likely issue, since NT boots
just fine) and the results show no hardware problems.

>>Good idea, although I'm not quite sure where to start the process. Time
>>wise, this is a daunting task since I have to boot from the utility
>>diskette set each time I do a restart (a 2-3 minute process). I did some
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>Yes, it is. That's why I always arrange to have one or more of my data
>partitions bootable by BOOTOS2. It's about a 3MB footprint and well worth
>it at times like this. Some folks dedicate an entire partition to a
>maintenace boot. I can see not good reason for this.

Good thought, but probably not an option for this recovery operation. I have
some questions about BOOTOS2, but I'll put those in a separate thread.

>>investigation today, comparing the dates on files between the two
>>systems, and the results are bizarre. As best I can tell, I have a mix
>>of Fixpak 11 and Fixpak 12 dates in D:\OS2\BOOT. I'm tempted to copy
>
>This is probably not the case. Remember that FP11 was the last FP that
>included all the device drivers. FP12 contains a few drivers, but rest
>are in Device Driver FP01. Why do you think this could be the case?

Sorry, I mis-stated, a bit. The reason I drew this conclusion was that I got a
fairly significant mismatch between the ThinkPad and the DFI system. Both were
updated last fall to FP12 and DDFP1, and I was doing a comparison between the
\OS2\BOOT directories on the two systems. However, I just happen to have a
backup of the ThinkPad D: partition (just no way to do a restore) and I did a
comparison this morning of the catalog data for the equivalent subdirectory and
found that what was backed up (on 05/16/2000) matches what is now in that
directory. Even the RESOURCE.SYS that was in use then is the one from 1996
(which I thought was a bad one).

>It might preserve your desktop somewhat, but you wll still have a lot of
>work to do restoring the private parts of the .ini setting.

Well, I have copies of the INI files, which is a start. I don't know if I
could just copy them back into the fresh install -- that seems a bit dubious --
but I could use UniMaint to extract and restore any missing applications once
the install was complete.

>I'd take a real close look at the drivers. These are the most likely
>sources of your problems.

I'll see if I can do something about this today, and I'll let you know the
results tonight sometime.

--gary
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