In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/09/2005
   at 04:10 PM, Gilbert Saint-Flour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>When you start OS/2, there's a white square in one corner of the
>screen  that stays for a brief moment.  When you see it, press Alt-F1
>to  display a menu with a couple of options, one of which allows you
>to  bring up a command line before the GUI starts.

That won't help if the system dies before it tries to start PM. If he
doesn't have BM set up to load an alternate OS/2 then he needs to get
a boot CD or a set of boot floppies.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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