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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:49:22 PDT
From:	"mrakijas" <mrakijas@oco.net >
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video driver install problem

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** Reply to note from "Steven Levine"

Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:28:27

-0700

> Here's a couple of new tools.
>
> showqsv just lists the systems values that happen

to contain the drive
> letter. Use it to confirm that OS/2 really thinks

you are booting from
> drive D:. :-)

Here's the output, and as expected, something thinks

I am booting from drive D:

260 Maximum length, in bytes, of a path

name.
16 Maximum number of text sessions.
16 Maximum number of PM sessions.
1025 Maximum number of DOS sessions.
4 Drive from which the system was

started (3 = C:). [!!! -Rocky]
1 Dynamic priority variation flag (0 =

absolute , 1 = dynamic).
1 Maximum wait in seconds.
32 Minimum time slice in milliseconds.
64 Maximum time slice in milliseconds.
4096 Memory page size in bytes (4096 for

the 80386).
20 Major version number.
45 Minor version number.
0 Revision number.
300515 Value of a 32-bit, free-running

millisecond counter.
999171117 Low-order 32 bits of the time in

seconds since 1/1/1970.
0 High-order 32 bits of the time in

seconds since 1/1/1970.
133758976 Total number of bytes of physical

memory in the system.
14716928 Total number of bytes of resident

memory in the system.
978395136 Maximum bytes that can be allocated

by all processes.
318111744 Maximum bytes process can allocate

in private arena.
272498688 Maximum bytes process can allocate

in shared arena.
310 Timer interval in tenths of a

millisecond.
255 Maximum length, in bytes, of one

component in a path name.
19 Session ID of the current foreground

full-screen session.
55 Process ID of the current foreground

process.
1 Number of processors.
469762048 Maximum free space in process's high

private arena.
469762048 Maximum free space in process's high

shared arena.
1025 Maximum number of concurrent

processes supported.
1024 Size of the user's address space in

megabytes.
1 QSV_31.
0 QSV_32.

> pmdll v2.9beta3 is for you to be my guina pig. I

used your font troubles
> as a catalyst for updating the font validation

logic. The original code
> was way to conservative.

The new version at least lets the program get

started despite the two errors but the two errors,

of course, persist: Could not open font file and

could not find D:\CONFIG.SYS

> Also, an fdisk /query for the system we are

working on would be helpful.

Sorry if the columns get messed up but I'm using my

ISPs Web e-mail client which doesn't permit good

control.

Drive Name Part Vtype FStype Status Start Size

1 0000003f C: 1 07 2 0 1275

DFSee and PartitionMagic both produce no errors when
checking the drive.

Funky, huh? You'd think that if it thought that

drive D: was the boot drive, it eventually couldn't

continue. That could be why the addition of the

DaniDASD.DMD driver with it's assignable boot drive

command line argument fixed (or at least helped) to

allow booting to continue. It must be happening

before the config.sys is processed. Ahhhh. How's

this sound? I don't recall the sequence I used but

I might have done the SYSINSTX command on the drive

after the XCOPY but before the drive was the lone C:

drive on the system. Should I redo the SYSINSTX C:

after I boot to floppy? Could this be it?

> Steven

Thanks again for the help.

-Rocky

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