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Setup & Installation / Re: pscom.sys proper way to pass args
« on: July 12, 2025, 06:27:57 pm »
Without the parameters, the system locks up first time, sound play is attempted on boot up. (If enabled in BIOS)
Passing parameters like (1,3fa,4) also cause lockup.

RS232 (COM1) is built into the T43, (Enable / Disable) is a BIOS option.

I don't have a docking station.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Reading a usb thumb drive on arcaos 5.1.1
« on: July 12, 2025, 06:25:35 pm »
Will adding the LVM information cause Windows to be unhappy?

Is there an article or video that uncovers where the LVM information is stored and what it includes?


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Setup & Installation / pscom.sys proper way to pass args
« on: July 12, 2025, 01:18:25 pm »
T43, I need to be able to use the built in RS232.

If I enable the port in the bios and pass:
pscom.sys (1,3fa,4) on the command line, the system locks up or panics when sound starts to play on boot up.

How can I resolve?


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Setup & Installation / Reading a usb thumb drive on arcaos 5.1.1
« on: July 12, 2025, 01:08:51 pm »
I formatted a 8GB thumb drive as fat32, when I plug it in, I get detected.

But, when I go to inventory the disk is says empty, command line dir also shows no files.

How do I get it to work, as it should?

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Dave, I added a note to the ticket.

Thinkpad forum recommends that to speed up operation, you boot from the internal HD and put data on a PC Card with a compact flash adapter, like:
   Compact Flash to PCMCIA Ata Adapter CF to PC Card Adapter PCMCIA Ata Adapter for Cf 2 Card (Come with 512MB CF Memory Card)

Can someone point me to some docs on how to get this up and seen under ArcaOS 5.1.1?


   

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Maybe my T43 just need a timeout.

I went back,
access ibm > Reload Defaults, F10 Save and Continue
access ibm > F12 load from cdrom
Install started up.
Install complained about the disk something about last something or other.
  Disk Util in installer just went back to the main screen, guess it wasn't able to deal with the issue. 
Put in Gparted cdrom
Reboot.
Killed off the JFS partition I made (probably a linux jfs anywho) to test the HD. Made sure I had a 'ms dos' partition scheme on drive.
  'ms dos' being what gparted calls it.
  Saved all, rebooted.
Installer started. Said use the whole thing. First round through I said verify. I let it run for 30 minutes, and it was still on 0%.
Restarted install, didn't hit optional checkbox for verify while installing.
Installed finished.

So. I'm good.

Thanks to all for their suggestions.

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I also wanted to add, I've watched all the David Azarewicz video's I could find on the the tube.

Including those talking to BIOs, CSM, UEFI and using the minilvm tool for install.

The challenge is, I'm not even getting a splash screen.

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For the USB Stick, I followed the directions included with the bundle.

The file called readusb.txt using .\dfsanwin.exe -q run aosboot.dfs <snip>

For DVD creation, I used CDBurnerXP - burn iso, pointing to ArcaOS-5.1.1-en.iso.

In the past couple of years, I've updated both main and cmos batteries, and updated to the latest bio's revision I could find on thinkpad forum.

The ubuntu and gpart was not added to confuse the issue, but simply to demonstrate yes, I can boot from the usb port, yes I can boot from dvd and yes, the drive is seen and can be read from and written to.


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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.

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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.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / ArcaOS TestLog
« on: February 28, 2025, 01:08:31 am »
This is a pretty great tool.

It would be nice if someone create a website/database, where people could voluntarily upload the testlog for their system, with comments on how it did.

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  Did someone build a wget script to pull in extra bits and pieces and write a tutorial, because we seem to have gotten to code fairly quickly?

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