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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing OS/2 on 320GB disk
« on: May 05, 2016, 03:47:45 pm »
Hi
@Andi B
The 2 laptops are Intel based and the 2 desktops are AMD based. There is not that much that is common across the hardware.
Both Desktops have multiple boot volumes.
Both laptops and 1 bootable installation on each Desktop have eCS2.2 installed, the other bootable installations on the Desktops are eCS2.1 with various upgrades applied to both.
None of the systems have DOS/Win16 support installed - I would be surprised if that made a difference.
None of the systems have the "lost volume at boot" problem - or problems forcing a chkdsk at boot - when using JFS-109.05
All systems have XWP installed.
Reading the readme at the url you supplied I see there may be a problem with earlier builds of XWP and current builds of ACPI with regard to shutdown. I will experiment with this build of XWP and JFS-1.09.06 to see if that "cures" the "lost volume at boot" problem. I will have to report back on this in a few days - or less if it obviously does not fix the problem.
If the latest XWP does fix the problem I would still not recommend JFS-1.09.06 to anyone using bootableJFS on a "headless" server. I hope David revises his view on the /AUTOCHECK:+ switch and reinstates it in future JFS releases.
A digression but a further thought on XWP: When using Restart Desktop the option "Process all XWorkplace Startup folders" is checked by default. I know from posts in various ngs - and possibly on os2world - that I am not the only person who uses 2 XWP Startup folders: 1 for items to run on system startup and 1 for items to run when the Desktop is restarted. Can I suggest the default for this option be changed to Unchecked in the future?
Regards
Pete
@Andi B
The 2 laptops are Intel based and the 2 desktops are AMD based. There is not that much that is common across the hardware.
Both Desktops have multiple boot volumes.
Both laptops and 1 bootable installation on each Desktop have eCS2.2 installed, the other bootable installations on the Desktops are eCS2.1 with various upgrades applied to both.
None of the systems have DOS/Win16 support installed - I would be surprised if that made a difference.
None of the systems have the "lost volume at boot" problem - or problems forcing a chkdsk at boot - when using JFS-109.05
All systems have XWP installed.
Reading the readme at the url you supplied I see there may be a problem with earlier builds of XWP and current builds of ACPI with regard to shutdown. I will experiment with this build of XWP and JFS-1.09.06 to see if that "cures" the "lost volume at boot" problem. I will have to report back on this in a few days - or less if it obviously does not fix the problem.
If the latest XWP does fix the problem I would still not recommend JFS-1.09.06 to anyone using bootableJFS on a "headless" server. I hope David revises his view on the /AUTOCHECK:+ switch and reinstates it in future JFS releases.
A digression but a further thought on XWP: When using Restart Desktop the option "Process all XWorkplace Startup folders" is checked by default. I know from posts in various ngs - and possibly on os2world - that I am not the only person who uses 2 XWP Startup folders: 1 for items to run on system startup and 1 for items to run when the Desktop is restarted. Can I suggest the default for this option be changed to Unchecked in the future?
Regards
Pete