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Unable to boot Arca Installer 5.1.1 on Thinkpad T43 1871-AB9

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Dan Eicher:
I'm trying to upgrade myself to a T43 laptop with Arca.

I try to boot from ARCA511 USB stick. I get a White underline in the top right corner and things stop. (no other text).

I tried to boot off of a DVD that I made.
Same symptom, but I saw some harddrive activity on the HD status light.

What I have tried:

Boot live GParted - wiped the drive, only installed a MSDOS partition table.
Same Thing.
Boot live GParted - formatted the disk to JFS
Same Thing.

Reset BIO's to defaults, saved and rebooted.
Same thing.

Booted an MBR - Linux 18.04 stick.
Booted to installer fine.

Dave Yeo:
It's weird, the boot should go further. My T42 is a bitch to boot the USB but DVD boot has always simply worked.
Did you check the md5sum on your ISO, does sound like a corrupted ISO. Sometimes USB sticks have subtle errors, especially if old, but you're getting the same with the DVD boot.
You can always request a new ISO build from Arca Noae.

Dan Eicher:
ArcaOS-5.1.1-en.iso
24df5a033db55593efc72f1c1d8bfee3  ArcaOS-5.1.1-en.iso

I also tried the 5.1 boot thumb drive I used to install originally on a different thinkpad, and it failed in the same way.

Doug Bissett:
My T43 1871-W8M  works okay, but won't run the software that requires Pentium4 support.

I have seen the flashing cursor, on various machines. It usually means that the BIOS settings are not correct, or the media was not created correctly.

The first thing to do, is avoid using anything (GParted), other than OS/2 tools, to do anything with the disk drive. It ALWAYS ends up wrong (but that probably isn't causing the problem). You do need to get booted to OS/2 to use the tools.

So, some questions:

How did you create the USB stick? (you may want to try again, and carefully follow the instructions).

How did you create the DVD?

Neil Waldhauer:
Arca Noae provides good tech support. You could try that.

GParted is a mistake, but it should not stop the USB stick from booting. And you should be able to boot and zero out the disk to undo the damage from GParted.

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