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Started by Phil, 2009.01.09, 06:34:05

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Phil

Hi to all:
    Here is a small success story on installing ecom 2.0 rc6a.  Divided hd into two
volume's,  vista and ECS.  ECS volume was formatted with JFS, seem to install ok with acpi, installer reported that my AMD cpu was supported.  Everything seemed ok but on reboot system      extremely slow trying to launch and eventually would not start.  Reinstalled without acpi and again installed without complaint, on reboot everything worked well.  Using the LVM,  installed os2 boot manager ok and added both ecs and vista to the bm.  On reboot with out install cd, ECS booted fine but vista would not, error msg returned,   \windows\system 32\winload.exe either missing or corrupt.  Ran vista recovery cd and re booted to ecs and same error occurred.
Question:  Any thoughts on getting around this vista problem?

Question: How to get back door access to ecs to try various acpi switches without having to reinstall ecs os

Hardware overview generated by ACPIWZRD.EXE at 20090108 - 12:34:59
------------------------------------------------------------------------

[CPU info - 1 CPU(s) found]
manufacturer: AMD
socket:       Socket S1
family:       
type:         AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile TL58
SMP capable:  yes

[BIOS info]
manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
version:      F.30
date:         04/24/2008

[Systemboard info]
manufacturer: Quanta
type:         30D1
version:      85.26

[Kernel info]
level:        IBM:14.104a
description:  W4

[No ACPI currently installed]
Thanks in advance for ideas and suggestions

Regards:
Phil Ryan

DougB

There are conflicting reports, about AMD and ACPI. Some say that it doesn't work, and others say that it does, once you find the proper switches. The system should work fine, in single processor mode, without ACPI.  It is also a requirement, to use either the UNI, or SMP kernel (you have the W4 kernel, according to your post), if you use ACPI (although I have never heard of anyone who has actually had a problem with it).

One problem, that I had, was that the RC6a installer put the line:
EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE
into CONFIG.SYS. While it was there, my system had some sort of background process, that was eating up roughly 30% of the CPU cycles (two, very different systems). Once I got rid of that line, everything seems to be normal.

The lines, in CONFIG.SYS, for APM, and ACPI, are:
========================
REM [APM section
REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\APM.SYS
REM DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VAPM.SYS
REM RUN=C:\OS2\APMDAEMN.EXE
REM PSD=OS2APIC.PSD
PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /PIC
BASEDEV=APM.ADD
RUN=C:\OS2\ACPIDAEMON.EXE
========================
The REMed lines are for the older APM, which may work for you. PSD=OS2APIC.PSD is the OLD way to run multiple processors, and that works fine on my two, very different, SMP systems. The last three lines are for ACPI. The PSD line is what works with my new Asus M3A78-EM motherboard, with a triple core AMD processor, but the REMed lines also work fine (after REMing the other three lines, of course).

Okay, now to your VISTA problem. How did you shrink the VISTA partition? When i did that, I had to use the VISTA tools to do it (VISTA has that tool built in). Then, I was able to add new partitions for eCS, using LVM.EXE. MiniLVM wouldn't touch it, and DFSEE still doesn't like the way that the windows partitions are made, but it works.

I suspect, that you will need to reinstall VISTA, or, restore a backup, if you have one. I would guess, that something in VISTA has been corrupted, or (more likely), It thinks you have installed it onto a different machine, and it isn't going to let you do that, in which case, restore may not work either.

melf

Quote from: Phil on 2009.01.09, 06:34:05

Question:  Any thoughts on getting around this vista problem?


Phil Ryan

Installing eCS on my wifes Vista machine also gave me a problem like yours. I tried a lot of things among them several repear instruments from the Vista CD. What made a difference for me was that I ran chkdsk on the Vista partitiom from the Vista CD. I don't know though if that is possible from all OEM CD:s. This was LG:s OEM.
/Mikael

rwklein


To get your Vista workign again you need to boot from your Vista recovery CD. For details people should login(!) www.ecomstation.com and look at ticket http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/view.php?id=2354
(note that link will only work once you login www.ecomstation.com and then goto the bugtracker on that link your ecomstation login does not work).

The short version is before you install eCS get Dfsee (www.dfsee.com) and look up the
"NT disk signature". Write this down!!! This case sensitive!

After install of eCS and the boot manager you will see that this option has 8 0 in it. Fill in the "NT disk signature" and you should be able to start Vista via the boot manager of eCS!

eComStation RC 7 should contain a fix for this so Vista stays alive.


Quote from: Phil on 2009.01.09, 06:34:05
Hi to all:
    Here is a small success story on installing ecom 2.0 rc6a.  Divided hd into two
volume's,  vista and ECS.  ECS volume was formatted with JFS, seem to install ok with acpi, installer reported that my AMD cpu was supported.  Everything seemed ok but on reboot system      extremely slow trying to launch and eventually would not start.  Reinstalled without acpi and again installed without complaint, on reboot everything worked well.  Using the LVM,  installed os2 boot manager ok and added both ecs and vista to the bm.  On reboot with out install cd, ECS booted fine but vista would not, error msg returned,   \windows\system 32\winload.exe either missing or corrupt.  Ran vista recovery cd and re booted to ecs and same error occurred.
Question:  Any thoughts on getting around this vista problem?

Question: How to get back door access to ecs to try various acpi switches without having to reinstall ecs os


Try the ALT F1-F2 switch or boot from eCS CD and goto the recovery console. Most likely your system stopped working because of the /SMP or /APIC mode behind the line PSD=ACPI.PSD.

Hardware overview generated by ACPIWZRD.EXE at 20090108 - 12:34:59
------------------------------------------------------------------------

[CPU info - 1 CPU(s) found]
manufacturer: AMD
socket:       Socket S1
family:       
type:         AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile TL58
SMP capable:  yes

[BIOS info]
manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
version:      F.30
date:         04/24/2008

[Systemboard info]
manufacturer: Quanta
type:         30D1
version:      85.26

[Kernel info]
level:        IBM:14.104a
description:  W4

[No ACPI currently installed]
Thanks in advance for ideas and suggestions

Regards:
Phil Ryan

Phil

Many thanks to all for your responses, will keep me busy for awile to try all suggestions
A special thanks to Rodrick and mensys for all the good work concerning eComstation.
don't know what was changed in rc6a but for the first time on this machine I am able to install
ECS.  Over time I will get small things working

Regards
Phil

djcaetano


  Anyone knows the version of DANIS506 on RC6a?
  I am trying to install it on a rescue partition on my home computer (Athlon XP, single core) with two harddisks (one is PATA and the other is SATA) and RC6a DANIS506 keeps saying it cannot operate my harddisks... I had tested both with and without ACPI on eCS installer boot.
  The reason I am asking this is the fact I *am* using DANIS506 on my main installation (MCP2) and it works without problems. :)

DavidG

[David][F:\OS2\BOOT]bldlevel danis506.add
Build Level Display Facility Version 6.12.675 Sep 25 2001
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001
Signature:       @#DANI:1.8#@##1## 12.5.2008 17:06:29                Nachtigall:
:::5::@@  Adapter Driver for PATA/SATA DASD
Vendor:          DANI
Revision:        1.08
Date/Time:       12.5.2008 17:06:29
Build Machine:   Nachtigall
File Version:    1.8.5
Description:     Adapter Driver for PATA/SATA DASD