Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!mabdoor@cs.vu.nl
From: mabdoor@cs.vu.nl (Doorn van MAB)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: corrupted OS2.INI
Message-ID: <9756@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Apr 91 14:38:37 GMT
Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Lines: 43

I use OS/2 EE 1.3.

I have a serious problem with the OS2.INI file.

Somehow the OS2.INI file got corrupted (I installed a 1.2 program ?? )

When I try to boot OS/2 the screen turns gray (as normal), but then the
system hangs... (no Desktop Manager, no DOS box icon, no mouse pointer)

I solved this by renaming the OS2.INI file, and created a new OS2.INI
with MAKEINI OS2.INI INI.RC (I booted with the Install-diskette)

Now I can work with OS/2 normally, but all my group information, PM colors,
window position information has gone...

Question: How can I restore the info of the original OS2.INI ?

Note: I can't use INIEDIT, because this program can only edit OS2.INI, and
not a copy of it (e.g. OS2INI.OLD). So I can't boot with the clean OS2.INI
and then fix the old OS2.INI

Neither is it possible to boot with the corrupted OS2.INI and fix it, simply
because I CAN'T BOOT with the corrupted OS2.INI...

It isn't possible to copy OS2INI.OLD to OS2.INI, because OS2.INI "is in use".

It isn't possible to use INIEDIT after a boot with the Install diskette,
because INIEDIT requires the Presentation Manager !!! :-)


HELP !!!

You can contact me by e-mail: mabdoor@cs.vu.nl

Regards,

Matthijs van Doorn

________________________________________________________________________
| " To do is to be   - Nietsche  |                        /|   /|   /   \
|   To be is to do   - Kant      |   mabdoor@cs.vu.nl    / |  / |  /     | 
|   Do be do be do   - Sinatra " |   VU Amsterdam       /  | /  | /     |
|________________________________|_____________________/___|/___|/_____/