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Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:48:50 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: (Crossposted from ecs group) Can't install eCS 1.1 to TP 600E

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In <200403060928.5775246.6@scoug.com>, on 03/06/04
at 09:28 AM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

>> fdisk /query:bootable

> :) FDISK
> SYS1041 The name fdisk is not recognized as an internal or
> external command

You have used OS/2 long enough to know that you need to use a set of Warp4
diskettes to run this.

>[as run from command console of eCS CD#1]

>>
>>or
>>
>> lvm /query:bootable
>>
>>report?

> Logical Volume Type Status File System Size Z:
>ecs Memory-Boot-Disk FAT 16 Compatibility FAT16 7

There's something going on with your partitioning and/or BIOS that is
preventing eCS from believing that the volumes above 1024 are bootable.
The installer is forced to use the information is has available.

>MBR ?

Master boot record. How long have you been using PCs? Also, there's
always Google.

Try:

lvm /newmbr

This will rewrite the MBR code with what is supplied with eCS.

>BM: Using IBM BM installed from eCS CD #1

Perhaps it did not really get installed. Using the command line LVM.

- start LVM
- delete BM
- save and exit
- start LVM
- install BM

Does this change the symptoms?

>Yes I used Partition Magic as instructed in the eCS installation manual
>(and which worked fine for eCS 1.0 install).

This usually works, but nothing with computers is 100%. Green is a color,
but then again, so it red. They are not the same thing.

>More ideas?

Let me know the results of refreshing the MBR and BM. If this does not
resolve the problem, we are probably going to need to use dfsee to get a
more detailed view of partitioning.

Regards,

Steven

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