Hi all,
After batteling with and losing to the Warp 4.52 installation process, I have deceided to try my luck with eCS 2.1.
This, too fought me, but its all installed now & working. I'm posting this incase a future new eCS2.1 user has a similar problem.
The initial phase of the installation went well. I had initially wiped the HDD with 'ClearHDD.exe'. I chose the default install option.
After the initial reboot following the completion of Phase 1, I selected to boot up from the HDD (the default option). The black screen with the 'eCS Blob' was shown & quickly replaced with the graphical eComStation splash screen. This then cleared and I was shown each device driver (basedev) as it was loaded. The last line being 'c:\os2\pmshell.exe'. After a short pause, the screen cleared. There were a couple of brief flashes, as if the screem mode was being changed, but beyond that, nothing. the HDD activity light was off. Nothing changed. Eventually I rebooted (ctrl-alt-del worked).
I'm not sure how many of these steps were actually necessary, but the followig got the installation back up & running for me:
- On boot up, on the eCS Blob screen, press Alt-F1, to open the recovery menu.
- Select F3 to install the basic generic display drivers & reboot when this complete (Note: for me, this initially did nothing...but read on
- On boot up, on the eCS Blob screen, press Alt-F1, to open the recovery menu (again).
- Select F6 to boot without checking hardware
- You now should see the GUI being build on screen, but in 640x480x16 mode. Just complete Installation phase 2 from here.
- After Installation phase 2 is compete & you've rebooted in the eCS (for real), You'll see as Final Installation Steps (or similar) dialog. select the 1st tasb ('Screen') & select to change you video driver. You'll be presented with a list of 4 options 'Snap', Panorama', 'Gradd' and 'VGA' (selected).
- I selected 'Snap', closed the dialog & rebooted.
- When the system came back up, I was able to select all the screen resolutions & colour depths my video hardware supports.(Note: any change requires a reboot)
That's it. Hopefully if anyone comes along in the future having a similar situation to what I had, this will help them.
cheers
P.