"Too many params" and "cannot find ps2main.exe"

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From: Michael W. Godfrey (migod_at_plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 09:13:54 EDT


My sincere thanks to everyone (Bill Morrow, James H. E. Maugham, Mike
Lingenfelter, Michael Geary, Adam Quantrill, and anyone else I missed) who
made suggestions on how to use the emergency repair disk with my new 18G
HDD on my TP600E.

After a couple of false starts (hint: the startup CD really likes it if
you've actually formatted the new disk already and it should be FAT16 for
*a little more than* the first 2Gig), I now have a working TP600E once
again.

So now ... when I boot up into Win98, I get two messages that worry me, and
one more problem. The two messages are:

    (1) Too many parameters
    (2) Cannot execute file ps2main.exe
        File not found

Message (1) I have no idea about. As for message (2), I figured out that
ps2main is in c:\thinkpad, and my autoexec.bat file looks like this:

    @ECHO OFF
    SET PATH=C:\Thinkpad ;
    SET PS2MSG=C:\THINKPAD\PS2.MSG
    REM The following line is for hibernation.
    C:\Thinkpad\Ps2.EXE HFILE C
    REM The following line is no longer needed. It may be deleted.
    If Exist C:\MFGBOOTI.REG C:\WINDOWS\REGEDIT C:\MFGBOOTI.REG
    mode con codepage prepare=((850) c:\windows\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
    mode con codepage select=850
    set PATH=%PATH%;D:\Program Files\vim\vim56

So I don't understand why it can't find ps2main.exe (and I don't
understand why my dos shells don't reflect the PATH set up here either.
The last line should allow gvim.exe to be found in my path.)

Any further enlightenment (he said, gnomishly) greatly appreciated!

-- Mike


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