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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:59:98 -0500
From: Chris_neeson <Chris_Neesonatcompuserve dot com>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Recovery Choices Set Up

Thanks David.

What you're saying about the difference in shutdown behaviour between
the 'normal' ALT-F1-F2 option, and what you get from a customised CONFIG,=

is exactly what I found.

( I think I tried PROTSHELL=3DCMD.SYS, as well as PMSHELL=3DCMD.SYS,
  and every possible combination of the two ).

I've gone as far as browsing ALTF1.CMD, ARCRECOV.CMD,
and the OS2 loader and kernel ( to see if they pipe changes to the
CONFIG ), but still can't see where the difference comes from.

So....I'll get my wannaCONFIG off the system build disk
and email it to you.


Regards
Chris
----------------------- David replied --------------------------- =

Chris,

You asked about this a couple of weeks ago, and apparently I never sent
my reply.  There's been a barely started draft sitting here waiting to
be finished, but, I forgot to get on with it.  Anyway, here's what I
intended to say before.

=46rom you previous question:

>I've gone through the old Warp Hint & Tips databases,
>and I have a slightly customised version of my CONFIG.SYS,
>using PMSHELL=3DCMD.EXE,

Looking in the CONFIG.SYS, shouldn't this be PROTSHELL=3DCMD.EXE .  (I
assume it was a typo in the original question) =


I experimented with this, and the behaviour of this is different to the
ALT-F1-F2 option.  The main difference is when you type "exit" at the
prompt.  For the ALT-F1-F2 option, the system will reboot after an exit
command.  But, with the customised CONFIG.SYS, option, it doesn't. =

Exit will stop the session,  but I had to use CTRL-ALT-DEL or the power
switch to restart.  I think there is a difference in how this is
handled by OS/2 because there doesn't seem to be anything in CONFIG.X
that would cause the system to go to the command line.  ie.  all the
statements that affect this are the same as my normal CONFIG.SYS.  So,
I assume that something in OS/2 (the kernal?) knows what it is doing.

As to the clean shutdown problem, the things I can think of are:

- are the two IFS=3DHPFS statements inconsistent between the two CONFIGs?=


- Are there any older DLLs or drivers that the might get picked up?  If
your command-line boot picked up original install files and you normal
boot picked up FP files, there could be some problems.  The original
HPFS files would sometimes displayed a message like "A small file
system inconsistency has been found" and run chkdsk even if there where
no problems.

The only other thing would be to send me the two CONFIG files and I'll
have a look and see what I can see.  Or, post them and let us all
comment.  =


Last thought, if the purpose of this is to get to a command line
without the WPS/Desktop, you can also do this by changing:

SET RUNWORKPLACE=3DC:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE =


to

SET RUNWORKPLACE=3DC:\OS2\CMD.EXE

What this will do open an OS/2 Window on a blank background.  The
desktop won't be loaded but most PM programs (any that don't use the
WPS) will be runnable.