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Problems booting ArcaOS
Pete:
Hi All
This is a problem I have been trying to sort for a few weeks but without success.
When the system has been powered off for a while, eg overnight, ArcaOS often does not boot fully at first attempt - can take 3 or 4 attempts. If "Loading OS2DASD.DMD" is displayed for longer than the usual flicker the system then stops booting with "Loading OS2LVM.DMD" displayed. This behaviour started around 6 weeks ago with the occasional failure on first cold boot and has gradually got to the stage where booting ArcaOS can now take upto 4 attempts on most cold boots. Sometimes, just to add to my confusion, ArcaOS boots on the first attempt with no problem.
I also have eCS2.1 and 2.2beta2 installed on this system. There is no problem cold booting either of those installations, both boot at first attempt.
The config.sys files for ecs2.1, ecs2.2b2 and ArcaOS are identical - except for drive letter involved - with regard to DEVICE and BASEDEV drivers and the driver files used are the same on all 3 systems.
If the problem affected all 3 installations then I would suspect either hardware or a flaky driver but the problem only seems to affect ArcaOS - it has not shown up when cold booting either of the eCS installations.
Posting in the hope that someone may have some thoughts...
Pete
Dave Yeo:
Could your hard drive be developing a bad spot where ArcaOS is installed?
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on August 15, 2018, 06:08:40 am ---Could your hard drive be developing a bad spot where ArcaOS is installed?
--- End quote ---
I am very much afraid this look indeed as Dave is suggesting, a bad sector on your hard disc...
Boot from ArcaOS DVD and run a CHKDSK on the boot volume to see if that does any good.
But if I where you I would make a backup of any data.
Roderick
Andreas Schnellbacher:
Yes, this is probably a hardware problem. After having run chkdsk from another boot partition, I would exchange in the following order:
1. Hard disk
2. Mainboard
3. Power supply
ivan:
Hi Pete,
Download the hard disk manufacturers disk test utilities and run them against the HD. If there is a HD problem this should indicate what and where it is - at least the various disk tools that I have do.
If it is a sector going bad you should be able to move the data on that sector to a spare sector and mark the sector as bad. I just wish we had a SMART monitor that worked with ArcaOS because the SMART output would also indicate problems - example, number of relocated sectors.
Edit to add.
Since you have eCS on the same disk the SmartMon from that should work assuming you have SMART enabled for the disk.
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