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Ecomstation RC4 installation fails on ABIT IP35 Pro

Started by Jan van Dijk, 2008.07.05, 00:57:53

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Jan van Dijk

Hi,

Has any one experience installing Ecomstation on an ABIT IP35 Pro motherboard.
Today I tried to install it but it failed during second reboot, you see ECS shortly in the upper left corner and after that the system reboots.
If you then startup in the maintenance console you can access the drive you installed ECS on and every thing seems OK.
I have no idea how I can find out what is wrong. I haven't found any logfile indicating what is wrong.
Can any one give me some info about what is wrong.


Pete

Hi Jan

Some info on mainboard chipsets and your eCS Install choices may help shed some light on the problem. As an eg How new is the mainboard? - some new boards seem to need ACPI to get them to work. Did you install ACPI?

As you can access the drive it would be worth having a look through - and possibly editing - the config.sys file as RC4 does make mistakes with wrong/duplicate entries.

I guess the other thing to suggest is RC5 in the hope that it overcomes some of the RC4 problems.

Regards

Pete


Jan van Dijk

Hi,

Today I tried to install Ecomstation 2.0 RC5, but no luck, problem stays the same, immediate reboot after first reboot after installation.
I used default settings during installation, only did not do the check while formatting the HPFS partition, because this takes a lot of time.

The motherboard is brand new and contains an Intel P35 chipset with ICH9R.
Installed CPU Intel E8200
Installed Memory 2x2GB.
2x Lan RTL 8111 displayed during installation as RTL 8167
6x SATA (via ICH9R, Harddrive Seagate 500GB. connected to SATA port 1 and DVD-writer connected to port 3, DVD ROM connected to port 4.
IEEE 1394 2x.

Phoenix BIOS settings:
Onchip SATA Device:
Busmaster: Enabled.
Onchip SATA Controller: Enabled.
- SATA Mode: IDE
OnChip PCI Device:
OnChip Autio Controller: Enabled
- FP Audio: HD-Audio
USB Device Setting:
USB Functions: Enabled
- USB 2.0 Operation Mode High Speed
- USB Keyboard Support Via BIOS
- USB Mouse Support Via OS
- USB Storage Function Enabled
SuperIO Device:
Floppy Disk Controller Enabled.
Onboard PCI Device:
IEE 1394 Controller: Enabled
Network Controller 1 Enabled
-Invoke Boot Agent Disabled
Network Controller 2 Enabled
-Invoke Boot Agent Disabled
Storage Controller Enabled
-SATA Mode IDE
Power Management Setup
ACPI Suspend Type: S1 (PowerOn-Suspend) (Choises are S1 and S3)
x - Resume by USB from S3: Enabled, Can be disabled using S3.
Power Button Function: Instant-Off
Wake Up by.... all Disabled.
Power On By PS2 KB/MS: Disabled
Restore on AC Power Loss: Power Off.
Advanced Chipset Features:
DRAM Timing Selectable: By SPD
PCIe Compliancy Mode v1.0a (selection possible: v1.0a and v1.0)
PEG Force X1: Disabled
Init Display First: PCI Slot

Attached find a zip file showing the output of some acpi utilities I ran from the maintenance console:
acpitree.log containing the output of acpitree.
acpiirq0.log containing the output of acpiirq 0
acpiirq1.log containing the output of acpiirq 1
scanpci.log containing the output of scanpci
also included the config.sys for investigation, I have no idea how to see if acpi is enabled, I see some acpi statements in config.sys but don't know if this is correct.
I don't know if the correct kernel is installed but the current date of os2krnl is 5-01-07 2:16p, size 849262.

Hope some one can help me to find out what is the problem here.

Best regards,

Jan van Dijk

The Blue Warper

Quote from: Jan van Dijk on 2008.07.06, 23:49:36

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I have no idea how to see if acpi is enabled

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Hi, Jan!
In order to check if acpi is enabled and working in your system, the following page might be useful to you:

http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=certificate

Jan van Dijk

Hi,

The problem was 4GB of memory, I removed one bank and installation continued.
Also acpi works correctly, did the tests mentioned in the link and all OK.
Still want to know if it will be possible to run with 4GB RAM. Are there settings that can be changed to boot with 4GB memory.
If any one has some info how to overcome this problem, his help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Jan van Dijk