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Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:19:14 -0800
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Failure installing eCS 2.0 Beta3 on T42p

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Some progress...

I followed some of your suggestions:
Used DFSee to blank the free space and re-write the MBR. No difference.
Removed the Ultrabay Matshita DVD-RAM & used a Plextor USB PX-716UF.
This behaved somewhat differently, but still ended with a blank lcd
screen on the TP.

Then I thought, Maybe this is a video problem of some sort. I attached
my Sony G520 monitor as a second display. Both displays still went to
black, *BUT* the external display came back after I hit the shift key!
There is a portion of the installation process that does NOT display on
the lcd! From the point that it "hung" until it displayed the SNAP logo,
the lcd was blank, but I had a display on the crt. Once it got past the
SNAP logo, the lcd display remained. It STILL does not show the text
portion of the eCS 2.0B4 boot process.

Other things seem to be working: Gigabit Ethernet, sound tested so far.
I don't know yet whether there is any hope for the modem. I would like
to get it working, but it is probably a Winmodem. :-((

Thanks for your help!

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <45DE94BF.5020403@san.rr.com>, on 02/22/07
> at 11:16 PM, Tom Brown said:
>
>
>> I want to install eCS + BM into part of that free space and be able to
>> boot either OS. I have tried to install eCS 1.2MR (ecs12mr_cd1_en.zip)
>> and eCS 2.0B3 (ecs20beta3a_cd1_en.zip) with no success. The CD boots, I
>> select own values, about 45options from the first few screens, and then
>> it hangs when I start the install by pressing Alt-F4 + Enter.
>>
>
> Very odd. T42s pretty much just work for eCS.
>
>
>> With Dani, performance mode, I get DANIS506.ADD (<1sec), DANIATAP.FLT
>> for about 1 sec, then a blank, black screen, hung.
>>
>
> Makes me wonder about the CD/DVD.
>
>
>> I have also tried the last one with VGA instead of SNAP, same result.
>>
>
> This should be irrelevant.
>
>
>> I have appended dfswork5.log from DFSee 8.11 showing the layout of the
>> disk. The only thing that I can see there is the unfamiliar MBR code. I
>> guess this is what IBM provides to trap the blue Access IBM button to
>> get to the recovery partition instead of the normal boot sequence.
>>
>
> I don't see anything unexpected in the dfsee log.
>
> There are a couple of easy things you can try with dfsee. Wipe the
> freespace. Do the standard mbr and partition chain fixes that dfsee
> offers.
>
>
>> Is there any way to replace the Dani drivers on the CD image with the
>> latest (V 1.7.10) *IF* that might help?
>>
>
> I doubt replacing drivers will help. Your hardware is basically older
> than the versions of eCS you are trying to install.
>
> To replace files that are on the CD, there's the bootupdt diskette
> procedure. I don't know if Veit has updated this to work with a flash
> drive yet.
>
>
>> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
>>
>
> With the 2.0 beta, try booting without acpi enabled.
>
> Steven
>
>

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

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