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ArcaOS 5.0.6 released

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Andreas Schnellbacher:

--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on September 03, 2020, 05:47:29 am ---I know that USBD.SYS should (must) be first,

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That's also what I remembered. It was below the others and above the newly added X type. After moving USBD.SYS above, I had the same problem with phase 2.

Yes, Lars has fixed his drivers to accept any order.


--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on September 03, 2020, 05:47:29 am ---I believe the installer runs "LVM.EXE /RediscoverPRM" from STARTUP.CMD,

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Yes. I've used the program object in the drives folder, but that didn't help either.


--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on September 03, 2020, 05:47:29 am ---add "sleep 2" to the beginning of STARTUP.CMD, then continue to phase 2.

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No, that won't help. I had renamed STARTUP.CMD from another partition to avoid automatic execution. In phase 2 the desktop booted and I executed STARTUP.CMD manually, but with the same message.

Now I remember that there was a message that AiRBoot doesn't work anymore and that it needs to be manually reinstalled first. But AiRBoot had worked. At phase 2 it boots to the CSM to let it boot from harddisk, which boots the correct partition. After these tries, AiRBoot still works normally.


--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on September 03, 2020, 05:47:29 am ---Phase 2 uses a slightly modified version of your own CONFIG.SYS, from the hard disk. If
there is something odd in there, it may not work quite right.

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Yes, the order of USBD.SYS, as I wrote. It's all very similar to eCS, where I was more involved.

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote ---Yes, the order of USBD.SYS, as I wrote. It's all very similar to eCS, where I was more involved.
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Okay, it is probably a bug in the driver. That needs to be reported, with supporting documentation (see the "Best practices" wiki).

ArcaOS has very little in common with eCS. ArcaOS is a completely new implementation, from the ground up, and the USB 12.x drivers are completely new. Very few, if any, parts of eCS are included, and what looks to be the same thing, has been completely re-written.

The USB drivers have proven to be very problematic, because nobody follows the rules, and other operating systems have gone along with that, because the biggest of them all makes their drivers work with devices that are way out of spec. That means that OS/2 must follow suit, but there is very little, if any, documentation about what gets changed to make those devices work. Even different BIOS implementations work differently, with the same hardware, and BIOS settings can also change the way it works. David just hasn't found all of those possible differences, yet.

Rick Smith:
Greetings,

I am relatively new to Arca, I have downloaded the update iso do I have to reinstall or is there an upgrade path? If there are upgrade instructions could you point me that way?

Rick

Andreas Schnellbacher:
You can update all versions since ArcaOS 5.0 to 5.0.6. The updater is included since 5.0.4.

Upgrading between major version of ArcaOS is planned.

Migrating from eCS or OS/2 W4.x is planned.

See here.

Maybe also interesting: Changelog, ArcaOS, ArcaOS Roadmap

ivan:
OK, having got the base system up and running and most of the icons changed over to OS/2 ones I started loading my usual set of programs that I use.

First problem, when I went to compare how this version ran against my 5.0.2 version on my work computer - I tried to start BS_Info but it passed out with the opening screen just flashing on before vanishing although it did leave some information in popuplog.os2 saying that the problem was with doscall1.dll.

I'm now wondering if I should just download all the updates and revert to an older version 5.0.2 or 5.0.3 that I know works.

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