The white square with ALT-F1 did help !. However I lost my desktop IPL icons probably because there was damage in desktop directory in the first place.... chkdsk ran on all the disk C, D and E. In the D drive there is a P390 directory. I suppose the next step is to kick up p390, there is an IPL.cmd which I typed and got "a default devmap configuration file was not found, use ....... this create one... there is a couple of devmap files in different directories (like OS390) . Before this problem, I had in the desktop a box which had 3 IPL Icons (OS390, VM, VSE/ESA ), if had click on one, he'd ipl that operating system and everytime I would restart the whole box it'd reipl the last operating system. If I'd want to IPL another , I'd shutdown the current operating system , go in the box and double click on the wanted operating system and it'd go up.... As it stands now.... I have a basic OS/2 up & running, my problem is I don't know what the commands are to start the P390 portion and the operating systems.... Richard
"Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/09/2005 > at 01:18 PM, Richard Verville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Hi have a P390 runnning OS2(base) OS/390. We had a power failure , on > >restart I got a message concerning DESKTOP line not being in > >config.sys. > > It's best to quote messages verbatim instead of trying to interpret > them. > > >There is a desktop directory with what appears all my icons. > > Don't mess with it. > > >So anyways I decided to rename config.sys to another name and I had a > >config.wal file that I renamed as config.sys . > > Why? Unless you know what each of those files are and how they are > related, the rename is Russian Roulette. > > >On restart now I get another error conerning an invalid line > > What message? What line? > > >another message pops up sys0039 the F device is not ready > > My guess is that your config.wai was for another configuration. > > >Is there a way to stop the execution of config.sys so I can go back > >to the original one and see if I can fix that one. I don't have a > >OS/2 diskette to boot up the PC > > Unless you have a partition with another copy of OS/2, you'll have to > find an OS/2 system on removable media. Don't you have an install > CD-ROM? > > -- > 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) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
