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From: tslee@oracle.uucp (Terry Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Help needed:  IBM OS/2 1.20 hangs during boot
Message-ID: <1990Jun2.034210.10279@oracle.com>
Date: 2 Jun 90 03:42:10 GMT
Reply-To: tslee@oracle.uucp (Terry Lee)
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Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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Upon booting the hard disk, OS/2 cranks with informative messages for about
40 seconds, clears the screen, then hangs.  The disk becomes quiet.  Keyboard
input is to no avail, eventually filling the input buffer and beeping
thereafter.

This system has been able to run OS/2 only when ESCaping out of the Install
boot diskette, otherwise hangs everytime.  The installation was absolutely
vanilla, no hacks, etc. and has been repeated without any luck.

Hardware is a Mini 386/20, 8 Megs 80ns Ram, ST4096 80 Meg drive, EGA, Microsoft
mouse, 3 1/2 disk drive on A:.  Intel CPU with Chips and Technologies CHIPset,
and Phoenix bios.

The only oddieites is that the installation mistakenly thinks the card is a
CGA.  A CGA card was put in and OS/2 reinstalled, but still hangs in the same
place.

Any Advice?  Thanks in advance.

Terry Lee