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Setup & Installation / Airboot no longer works...
« on: May 11, 2020, 11:27:57 pm »
Hi All
An interesting evening so far. Thought I would create an ArcaOS 5.0.4 USB Flash Drive install which worked OK; booted fine to the Maintenance Console so I would expect to be able to install from it.
However, on rebooting from the Maintenance Console Airboot threw a wobbly and delivered this message:-
Scanning...
- Your system has at least one broken partition table entry or your hard drive contains bad sectors. System halted.(HDD2)
Hmmm... does not look good.
I booted from an ArcaOS5.0.1 dvd to the Maintenance Console and from there discovered that there does not seem to be any Airboot docs installed on my ArcaOS 5.0.1 system.
I did locate airboot2.exe in \sys\bin and ran it thinking to delete the Airboot installation and then reinstall. So I then discovered it is a case of using "lvm:newmbr:1" on the command line to remove Airboot.
Before going any further I chkdsk'd drives with no reported problems, no problems at all running dir on any drive.
I had a look at the disks/drives using LVM - which made no complaint about bad partition table(s).
As I have DFSee installed I fired that up - I would like to say no problems reported but there are some lines that have me puzzled:-
At least 4 non-trivial minor warnings were not shown. Use 'part -w:t -t-' for details.
DFSee OS/2 15.0 : Executing: part -w:t -t-
Command timestamp : Monday 2020-05-11 19:29:39
Pid02=J: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Pid03=H: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Pid04=L: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Pid06=D: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Not sure how they have become marked as startable, H: and L: are boot drives and on the Airboot menu but J: and D: are not - and I do not think logical drives can be marked startable.
Is this what Airboot was moaning about?
Having checked that my ArcaOS5.0.1 installation was Startable I rebooted and had no problem booting my ArcaOS installation.
I tried reinstalling Airboot which worked fine but on reboot delivered the above "- Your system has at least one broken partition table entry ..." After again booting the dvd to Maintenance Console and removing Airboot I can at least boot ArcaOS.
I can only guess that something is wrong with the Airboot configuration as there does not seem to be anything wrong with partitions or filesystems in use.
The problem is: How to get rid of the existing Airboot configuration?
Any "cures" out there?
Regards
Pete
An interesting evening so far. Thought I would create an ArcaOS 5.0.4 USB Flash Drive install which worked OK; booted fine to the Maintenance Console so I would expect to be able to install from it.
However, on rebooting from the Maintenance Console Airboot threw a wobbly and delivered this message:-
Scanning...
- Your system has at least one broken partition table entry or your hard drive contains bad sectors. System halted.(HDD2)
Hmmm... does not look good.
I booted from an ArcaOS5.0.1 dvd to the Maintenance Console and from there discovered that there does not seem to be any Airboot docs installed on my ArcaOS 5.0.1 system.
I did locate airboot2.exe in \sys\bin and ran it thinking to delete the Airboot installation and then reinstall. So I then discovered it is a case of using "lvm:newmbr:1" on the command line to remove Airboot.
Before going any further I chkdsk'd drives with no reported problems, no problems at all running dir on any drive.
I had a look at the disks/drives using LVM - which made no complaint about bad partition table(s).
As I have DFSee installed I fired that up - I would like to say no problems reported but there are some lines that have me puzzled:-
At least 4 non-trivial minor warnings were not shown. Use 'part -w:t -t-' for details.
DFSee OS/2 15.0 : Executing: part -w:t -t-
Command timestamp : Monday 2020-05-11 19:29:39
Pid02=J: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Pid03=H: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Pid04=L: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Pid06=D: warning : Logical partition is marked as startable! (active)
Not sure how they have become marked as startable, H: and L: are boot drives and on the Airboot menu but J: and D: are not - and I do not think logical drives can be marked startable.
Is this what Airboot was moaning about?
Having checked that my ArcaOS5.0.1 installation was Startable I rebooted and had no problem booting my ArcaOS installation.
I tried reinstalling Airboot which worked fine but on reboot delivered the above "- Your system has at least one broken partition table entry ..." After again booting the dvd to Maintenance Console and removing Airboot I can at least boot ArcaOS.
I can only guess that something is wrong with the Airboot configuration as there does not seem to be anything wrong with partitions or filesystems in use.
The problem is: How to get rid of the existing Airboot configuration?
Any "cures" out there?
Regards
Pete