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Corrupt partition 0 error when trying to install eCS 1.2R on real hardware
Jean-Yves:
Along with the Dell mini 1012 that I was given by my in-laws came a venerable Dell desktop (venerable indeed, it uses PS/2 keyboard and mouse!)
Spec wise I think it would suit eCS well (dual core Celeron, 2GB of RAM, 40GB hard drive), so I had a go at installing eCS 1.2R on that after cleaning out the internals of the copious cobwebs and dust. It currently has XP on it and I ran a full checkdisk using that - all came back fine
However, when I get to the eCS Create Volume step in the setup, it keeps reporting a corrupt partition 0 and won't let me do any changes, i.e. I cannot create Boot Manager, cannot rewrite MBR, cannot add a new volume
I can boot back into XP and again no errors reported using checkdisk.
I had the same problem with an old Dell laptop a few months back - ran XP fine, Linux installed fine if sluggish, but eCS complained of an error in partition 0
Is this a known eCS 1.2R bug? Is it fixed in 2.1 or is there a way around it? Would a bootable DFSee be the way to go - is there some step I need to do to make a hard drive eCS friendly? I don't recall any such thing when I last used eCS several years ago, but it could be that I've forgotten
Any advice gratefully received, otherwise Linux will be going on there instead!
PS - I don't get this error when installing under VirtualBox, it only seems to be with real hardware
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Jean-Yves on October 27, 2014, 12:21:25 pm ---Along with the Dell mini 1012 that I was given by my in-laws came a venerable Dell desktop (venerable indeed, it uses PS/2 keyboard and mouse!)
Spec wise I think it would suit eCS well (dual core Celeron, 2GB of RAM, 40GB hard drive), so I had a go at installing eCS 1.2R on that after cleaning out the internals of the copious cobwebs and dust. It currently has XP on it and I ran a full checkdisk using that - all came back fine
However, when I get to the eCS Create Volume step in the setup, it keeps reporting a corrupt partition 0 and won't let me do any changes, i.e. I cannot create Boot Manager, cannot rewrite MBR, cannot add a new volume
I can boot back into XP and again no errors reported using checkdisk.
I had the same problem with an old Dell laptop a few months back - ran XP fine, Linux installed fine if sluggish, but eCS complained of an error in partition 0
Is this a known eCS 1.2R bug? Is it fixed in 2.1 or is there a way around it? Would a bootable DFSee be the way to go - is there some step I need to do to make a hard drive eCS friendly? I don't recall any such thing when I last used eCS several years ago, but it could be that I've forgotten
Any advice gratefully received, otherwise Linux will be going on there instead!
PS - I don't get this error when installing under VirtualBox, it only seems to be with real hardware
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If you would have put the exact English error discription in google it might have already popped up.
To work around this installation problem, download DFSee (available at http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/download.php).
Get dfsos2.exe from the zip-file and put it on a USB-stick (FAT16) or on a floppy. Boot from the eComStation 1.2R CD-ROM and press Shift-F3 again to get a command prompt.
Start dfsos2.exe, press F10 and goto the menu option Mode=Fdisk.
Choose the menu option at the bottom:
"Manage OS2 LVM information"
Then select:
"Add default LVM-info (VCU)"
After having executed this command, DFSee will restart the system.
Boot from CD again and start minilvm to create your partitions.
This error occurs because VCU.exe from IBM is not run during installation. VCU is a utility to assign drive letters to all partitions. In some cases, running VCU under MCP1/MCP2 can lead to data loss. In eComStation 2.0 and above this problem is resolved with the installation CD. This checks the hard disc (if there are no problems) it reports in the text mode phase of the boot phase there are no errors or otherwhise offers to resolve the detected problem.
Jean-Yves:
Thanks Roderick
You are right, I should have googled the exact error message. I did do a search for the general error but as you can see from the title I could not remember the exact text. :-[
Good to know that there are two options open to me (DFSee and eCS 2.x)
Thanks again for the very thorough walkthrough for the DFSee option. Just one further question:
--- Quote ---Boot from the eComStation 1.2R CD-ROM and press Shift-F3 again to get a command prompt.
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At what stage of the eCS boot process should I do this - once I get into the graphical shell?
Edit: fixed a typo
guzzi:
--- Quote from: Jean-Yves on October 27, 2014, 03:26:07 pm ---
At what stage of the eCS boot process should I do this - once I get into the graphical shell?
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Right at the start when the white square appears in the left upper corner of the screen.
Jean-Yves:
Thank you!
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