In <[email protected]>, on 05/18/2012
at 11:52 AM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> said:
>Seriously, I remember OS/2 had a similar issue. Before you could
>write down the information about a catastrophic trap, it would
>restart and blow away the screen. There was a special CONFIG.SYS
>parameter you had to code to prevent it from automatically
>restarting itself. Oh what fun...
Other way around: you have to add REIPL=ON if you want an automatic
reboot. I suspect that you had an installation standard to always add
it as part of installing OS/2.
Note that you could use TRAPDUMP to get a dump prior to the reboot.
--
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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