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Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:13:40 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: can't install eCs 1.1 onto a Toshiba Satellite A45-S121

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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:40:36 PDT7, DAVID ROSE wrote:

>when you do the alt-f2 and the screen says
>'loading screen01.sys' is it honestly trying to
>load the actual screen01.sys driver ...or...the
>driver before screen01.sys???? if it's screen01,
>how would specify any other but scitech's(when there
>is no others)????

OK! First, I just want to make DOUBLY sure that you REALLY are seeing the
screen01.sys driver as the hang, and not some other driver. The point that I am trying to
make here is that, if you REALLY have not effectuated the "Alt-F2" button, then you are
REALLY not seeing all the drivers as they load. And if that is the case, your problem
may not be the screen01.sys driver.

Physically pressing ALT-F2 on some computers will not activate the list of loading
drivers, because (I believe) some computers are too fast. Basically, the computer
blows right past your pressing of ALT-F2. IBM had a kernel fix for this, but, in my opinion,
it was still an "iffy" affair (pressing sometimes worked and sometimes not!).

To know for certain that "ALT-F2" is working, you should first see an list of loading
drivers, one driver at a time, as it loads on your system. That list remains stationary in
the lower left hand corner of your monitor. That's important! Later on in the boot
sequence the list of loading drivers becomes a scrolling list that fills your screen from
top to bottom and usually moves fast, but sometime halts for a few seconds on one
driver or another.

On the other hand, if you have not REALLY effectuated ALT-F2, you then get the
scrolling list, only. And that list does not show all the drivers!

So, ..., which is it? Do you have a scrolling list, only? Or, does your list start out at the
bottom left of your screen and listing one driver at a time?

>if not could we make floppies to totaly avoid apm.sys
>(by rem'ing them in the floppy's config.sys) (if
>that's the offending driver 'before screen01.sys')???

Reading (and interpreting) the FAQ.TXT information, the hang on the APM.SYS driver
happens only after you have gotten past phase 1 and you are loading drivers, based
on the CONFIG.SYS file on your hard drive.

HCM

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