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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:45:26 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Video driver install problem

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In <200108272128.AA96207062@oco.net>, on 08/27/01
at 09:29 PM, "mrakijas" said:

>with a file selection box. I thought that was a
>little weird considering that the file was a command
>line argument. Nevertheless, I selected

The code is trying to be forgiving since it could not find the file as you
entered it, it allows you to select something else. I've yet to figure
out why everyone does not know I can do typos as well as anyone. The
correct command line is:

pmdll c:\os2\install\dspinstl.exe

>DSPINSTL.EXE in C:\OS2\INSTALL and PM DLL produced
>the following error: PM DLL tree view 2.8; Could
>not open D:\CONFIG.SYS. There is no such beast (C:
>is solely one HPFS partition and D: is the CDROM)

Well, the kernel is telling PMDLL that you are booted from drive D:.
Apparently, it does not agree with what you believe is happening.

>I did a quick scan of the remaining keys in the .INI
>file for D:\CONFIG.SYS, then C:\CONFIG.SYS for how

That's not where the info is. The call to get the info from the kernel
is:

DosQuerySysInfo(QSV_BOOT_DRIVE, QSV_BOOT_DRIVE, &ulBootDrive,
sizeof(ULONG));

>the machine could be confused in this way, but I

It is a new mystery.

>There is a deeper problem here. I am finally
>getting the feeling here that once this problem is
>addressed, it will have been the root of my video
>installation problem.

There's probably a lot of truth to this.

Orginally you reported this for fdisk /query:

Drive Name Partition Vtype FStype Status Start Size

1 0000003f C: 1 07 2 0 5867
1 00b75c2b E: 2 06 0 5867 305
2 0000003f D: 1 07 0 0 32247
**BIOS:8032MB
3 0000003f F: 1 07 0 0 956

This says you don't have boot manager installed and you are booting off
the primary on drive 1. Has this changed? I'm starting to suspect you
have a master/slave swap going on someplace and that you are really
booting off drive D:.

I suggest you install dfsee and see what it has to say about your drive
setup. Something is truely odd.

Steven

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