OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
ecs2.2 beta refresh
Alex Taylor:
--- Quote ---Okay, now the disk integrity test is happy, but miniLVM complains about a corrupt partition table, and it will allow no actions.
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Please open a bugtracker ticket on this if you haven't already.
MiniLVM and the disk integrity checker are always supposed to be in agreement about whether a disk is acceptable. If that is not happening, then the integrity checker is presumably failing to detect some critical issue and that absolutely needs to be fixed.
BTW please don't conflate MiniLVM with LVM. It is LVM that reports errors with the partition table. MiniLVM is nothing more than a dumb GUI that reports what LVM tells it.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---MiniLVM and the disk integrity checker are always supposed to be in agreement about whether a disk is acceptable. If that is not happening, then the integrity checker is presumably failing to detect some critical issue and that absolutely needs to be fixed.
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I am more inclined to think that LVM (I say "miniLVM" so you know what I was using) has a problem that needs to be fixed. Using a sub set of DFSEE to do the partitioning is probably the easy answer to the problem.
--- Quote ---Please open a bugtracker ticket on this if you haven't already.
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I would, but I am not sure what I am going to report. Presumably, Mensys has tested installs along side of Windows 7 PRO (with a recovery partition), on a 500 GB disk. I would be amazed if they haven't seen the problem. Of course they missed a lot of bad stuff in beta I.
In fact, "Manage Volumes" still reports a "corrupt partition table". It fails to identify the Lenovo recovery partition (at the end of the disk), and calls it "free space". I expect that that was the original problem. Windows, DFSEE, and Linux (PCLinuxOS now), don't have any problem with it. MiniLVM will allow me to change drive letters, and volume names. It will also install Air Boot. It just refuses to do anything that involves the partition table, since it thinks it is corrupt.
Can you tell me what the name of the integrity checker program is, so I can try it without having to go through the whole thing again?
Chenbiao:
--- Quote from: Joop on December 21, 2013, 02:18:52 pm ---Its not written with that much words, but you could download the Wacom Bamboo driver with http://joopn.home.xs4all.nl/os2ecs/download/Wacom_Bamboo00.zip . In the manual are a few hints what to do with a new not automatic recognized system. You could try to do just that, may be it works.
Regards,
Joop
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Thanks. Following your hint I tried the Wacom solution but it doesn't work neither. In the WinXP I found the Touchpad of Dell notebook is connected internally via PS/2 port but the Wacom drive is for usb connection. I think that's the reason.
Br.
CHEN.
Pete:
Hi All
Sorry to say I'm not very impressed with this beta partly due to lack of hardware support and partly because the installer gives you the option of deselecting items that it then installs anyway.
I installed to a Dell Latitude E5500 laptop. The installation was made more difficult than necessary because the touchpad was not working - nothing wrong with the hardware, just eCS does not seem to be able to drive a touchpad that is basically a PS/2 connected mouse. No, I did not have a mouse handy to use so it was a tiring Keyboard Only Advanced Install...
Maybe I should try a different mouse driver - IBM rather than AMouse maybe?
I'm not sure if the Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx 1Gb wired nic has a driver - I did not have a cable to try with.
I would prefer to get the Dell 1510 Wireless-N nic (made by Broadcom) working and would appreciate some pointers on attempting to get this working with Genmac.
Regards
Pete
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---I would prefer to get the Dell 1510 Wireless-N nic (made by Broadcom) working and would appreciate some pointers on attempting to get this working with Genmac.
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Have a look at: ftp://genmac@ftp.os2voice.org/ (use the word "unsupported", lower case, and no quotes, as a password, if asked) for some tips (in the READMEs). There are two Broadcom wireless NICs, packaged in GenMU_TEST-0-2-4.wpi. You will need to supply the PCI ID of your device (should be something like "14E4:4353"), to know if it is one of them. If not, I can package the windows driver, if you supply it (as instructed), but that doesn't mean that it will work. Genmac does have limits, and most newer drivers just won't work.
Note, that the difference between GenMU-0-2-1.wpi and GenMU_TEST-0-2-4.wpi, is that somebody has reported that the drivers in GenMU-0-2-1.wpi have worked (doesn't mean they will work for you). The drivers in GenMU_TEST-0-2-4.wpi have been packaged, and less than two users (usually zero users) have reported that they don't work. That means that somebody should try them, and see if they can be made to work. Some of them are packaged with alternate windows drivers.
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