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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:27:40 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installation error on eCS 2.0 Beta 4

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Steven Levine wrote:
> In <4625BB31.9010009@san.rr.com>, on 04/17/07
> at 11:31 PM, Tom Brown said:
>
> Hmmm.
>
>> It's a PC Power & Cooling Full Tower (steel). Weighs a ton! I could
>> bring the system, but probably not the monitor, a 21" Sony, another
>> heavyweight!
>
> This may be more effort than it's worth, unless you have a really good
> hand truck. :-)
>
>> I did get it to install to an HPFS partition, and it booted once or
>> twice, but now it says: Operating system not found. I haven't really had
>> much time to mess with it this past week. I may bring the system *IF*
>> there is a monitor available. Will try some more tomorrow.
>
> If it were me, I would install a trap dump partition and ask someone who
> can read them to interpret the resulting trap dump file for me.
>
> Steven
>
An update...

I found my problem booting. The BIOS seems to be a bit picky about the
sequence in the boot list. The mobo has 2 LSI 1030 SCSI channels with
the boot drive on the first of them. There are also 2 Plextor CD drives
on the second channel. The IDE channel is empty and I think disabled.
There is also a SATA controller with a Plextor PX-755SA DVD burner.
There is also a diskette drive. If the SATA drive is included, it seems
to get confused. It looks for something for about 5-10 seconds, then
says that it can't find an OS. I currently have the boot order set to:

Floppy
SCSI CDROM
HD

If I include the SATA DVD burner, it won't boot.

Next...

I couldn't get it up on the network. The NIC is an onboard Nforce 4
gigabit (x2). A bit of RTFM on GenMac fixed that and now it is working
online.

Lots of work still ahead.

Thanks for your help. Sorry I missed the meeting today. but it wasn't
possible politically.

--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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