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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Setup & Installation => Topic started by: Mario9501 on April 14, 2016, 08:21:47 pm

Title: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 14, 2016, 08:21:47 pm
I am trying to install OS/2 warp 4.52 server version and it keeps failing to get to the message that says for me to input the install disk.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Martin Iturbide on April 14, 2016, 08:51:55 pm
Hi Mario.
Welcome to the forum. I'm a big fan of your work  ;)

You trying to install it with the two CDs, the Boot CD and Installation CD, right?

Is that the message that asks you to switch from the "Boot CD" to the "Installation CD"? or that message shows up after you changed the CD?

Regards
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 14, 2016, 09:00:27 pm
Yes. And it is during when the boot cd is loading. I never get to the prompt that tells me to insert the install disk
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Martin Iturbide on April 14, 2016, 10:46:46 pm
Hi

Is it stuck on the "OS/2 Warp Server for e-Busines Logo"?
You can try to send a "Alt+F2" when the little OS/2 square shows on the top left when it recently boots. Can you see if the boot procedure is stucking in some driver?

Regards
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 15, 2016, 12:01:53 am
It loads through until it reaches doscall1.DLL then crashes. Yes
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: muffetta on April 15, 2016, 06:45:58 am
I am trying to install OS/2 warp 4.52 server version and it keeps failing to get to the message that says for me to input the install disk.
To install OS/2 warp 4.52 server version on new hardware you need to boot from a customized installation floppy disks set, since you need Daniela's EIDE/SATA driver instead of IBM ones:
http://ecsoft2.org/danielas-eidesata-driver
This is the reason why OS/2 is still alive and we are still here  ;).
Have a nice Warp!
I'll suggest you to try instead eComStation until the Blue Lion will be available.
Regards.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 16, 2016, 03:46:30 pm
I have had similar experiences and would be interested in knowing whether simply installing the DANI driver does the trick.

I thought it might have something to do with OS/2 being unable to handle a multiple core processor...
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 16, 2016, 04:33:21 pm
Just a quick update as I was interested to see if the DANI driver made any difference...

I already had a SATA disk with OS/2 installed on it and have been using it in the UltraBay of my ThinkPad T42, so it was easy enough to see if the DANI driver would enable my X61 to boot up. It never had before....

And....

I got a trap in DOSCALLS.DLL when booting.

Back to the drawing board.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: muffetta on April 16, 2016, 08:30:08 pm
Just a quick...
And....

I got a trap in DOSCALLS.DLL when booting.

Back to the drawing board.
Perhaps by setting the disk controller in legacy mode and using, how can I say, maybe some alternative kernel? maybe you'll be luckier  ;) !!
Anyway, you will need also the ahci driver to fully enjoy the hard disk speed.
Again, have a nice Warp!
Regards
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Dave Yeo on April 16, 2016, 08:53:47 pm
Likely needs ACPI.PSD to control the hardware.
There is the alternative made in Russia Kernel etc
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 16, 2016, 08:55:29 pm
Speeding up the disk is something I could tackle later, first I'd like to be able too boot.

What kernel options are there? I'm currently running the one from WSeB CP2 dated 08/03/02 (DD/MM/YY)...

Maybe I should try and install the SMP version...
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Roderick Klein on April 16, 2016, 09:35:42 pm
Just a quick update as I was interested to see if the DANI driver made any difference...

I already had a SATA disk with OS/2 installed on it and have been using it in the UltraBay of my ThinkPad T42, so it was easy enough to see if the DANI driver would enable my X61 to boot up. It never had before....

And....

I got a trap in DOSCALLS.DLL when booting.

Back to the drawing board.

WHile you will most likely need the Danis506.add to boot the system. You might need to remove memory from to laptop. I remember there where two versions of MCP 4.52.

One 4.52 and a 4.52 refresh. The main reason I think this refresh was created was because of a bug. If you have an X amount of gigabyte of RAM installed you get this crash in DOSCALL1.DLL.  Hence my suggestion to see if you can reduce the amount of RAM. I think you need to have 512 MB installed. But I could be wrong this is all from memory and it was more then 10 years ago that I read about this :-)

See posting #4 http://fixunix.com/os2/45251-installing-os-2-thinkpad-t42p.html.

Or you need to find fixpak 5 for MCP 2 and put a new DOSCALL1.DLL on the boot floppy with the OS2LDR (and heck why not replace the kernel).


Roderick
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 20, 2016, 03:08:39 pm
I got my X61 booting eventually by installing the latest SMP kernel and loader along with DOSCALLS.DLL and ASPI.PSD which came from the ARCA NOAE Aspi package.

The problem now is that I can boot, but can't connect anywhere as I can't find a suitable NIC.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 21, 2016, 02:29:24 am
ok so I am trying to install it on a hp Compaq dc5700 with 512MB of ram. And it keeps getting stuck at screen01.sys
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 21, 2016, 10:11:11 am
Which kernel are you using?

I'm no expert with these things, I just managed to get it installed on a multicore laptop for the first time a few days ago.

Having said that, I didn't actually install OS/2 on that laptop, I installed it on a disk in an older laptop, then updated a few files, inserted the disk in the X61 and it booted up successfully.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 25, 2016, 04:37:52 am
Now I am installing it on a older machine amd I keep getting sysinst2.exe failed to return the target drive.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 25, 2016, 08:50:16 am
Which machine and how are you installing? Is there a log file to look at ?
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: warpsalad on April 25, 2016, 10:04:01 am
It loads through until it reaches doscall1.DLL then crashes. Yes

Ah, if you're using the WinWorld images, I noticed a lot of them seem to be buggy except for a few (this is due to corrupted virtual floppy images in the ISO). Give this one a shot if you haven't:
IBM OS2 Warp 4.52 Server For e-Business (4.52.14.089_UNI)

I was getting the 'doscall1' error on fully supported hardware, I switched to the 'IBM OS2 Warp 4.52 (4.52.14.086_W4)' image and it installed without issue.

Although the T61 is technically not supported, but I am curious to see (once you've confirmed you're using a good image) if it actually runs.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: karotlopj on April 25, 2016, 12:38:39 pm
I don't think you can run a stock OS/2 distribution out of the box on a multicore laptop....

Maybe you can, but I couldn't work it out.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: ivan on April 25, 2016, 03:10:16 pm
You are correct John.  The install was designed for the computing equipment available then although we did use some SMP motherboards back then.

For todays computers you need to make an updated CD that has such things as the latest fixpak and the dani drivers but once you have that there is generally very few problems with those being related to network cards and video drivers.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 25, 2016, 03:39:06 pm
Which machine and how are you installing? Is there a log file to look at ?
Not what I could see an it is on an hp dx2300 compaq with 512 MB and a pentium processor running at 3.00 GHZ or a dx7400 I don't remember which. And I am installing it from cd-rom
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Olafur Gunnlaugsson on April 26, 2016, 08:19:49 am
Which machine and how are you installing? Is there a log file to look at ?
Not what I could see an it is on an hp dx2300 compaq with 512 MB and a pentium processor running at 3.00 GHZ or a dx7400 I don't remember which. And I am installing it from cd-rom
Could it be a hard drive size issue?
It should fail with another message, but you system otherwise seems compatible with anything from Warp and up, does the computer have a floppy drive?
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 26, 2016, 03:16:02 pm
The hard drives are 80GB and I have two but I think it's the two hard drives but I could be mistaken.
No but it does have a Zip drive but it is not connected and have two optical drives one is a DVD-rom and the other is cd-rom all connections are sata
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: warpsalad on April 26, 2016, 06:42:28 pm
Which machine and how are you installing? Is there a log file to look at ?
Not what I could see an it is on an hp dx2300 compaq with 512 MB and a pentium processor running at 3.00 GHZ or a dx7400 I don't remember which. And I am installing it from cd-rom

By 'Pentium' do you mean Pentium D, or Pentium 4? If you're running a Pentium D that's a dual core CPU (and every literal sense of the word since they use two discreet dies), then that's probably the issue. If it's a Pentium 4 disable hyper threading just to see if it changes anything.
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 27, 2016, 12:04:28 am
A pentium 4 and I looked and no
Title: Re: Thinkpad t61
Post by: Mario9501 on April 27, 2016, 03:21:57 pm
I got it working it was the image that I had and I ran into some problems with partitions but got past it thank you all for the help. And I'm going to close this topic. Thanks again. Unless people want this still opened. Vote using the poll