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Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:05:04 -0800
From:	madodel <madodel@ptdprolog.net >
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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Tom Brown wrote:
> madodel wrote:
>> Tom Brown wrote:
>>> 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!
>>>
>>
>> I can't help, but I am running eCS 2.0 B4 that I installed yesterday
>> on my T42p (2373-X41) without any display issues. I just used the
>> default install. Have you tried using Alt-F5 to step through the
>> config.sys to see what may be causing the hang? Only problem I had
>> was that the Genmac lines weren't added to protocol.ini, but once I
>> copied the relevant lines even wireless worked. Perhaps it is
>> something you have set in the BIOS that is effecting the video? I can
>> say that in the past when I have had similar problems (SNAP didn't
>> work) with the install it went away when I re-downloaded and burned a
>> new CD-R.
> It is only the text mode part of the boot from the CD, *AFTER* pressing
> Enter, Alt-F2, or Alt-F4 (I haven't tried Alt-F5 - didn't know about
> that) and BEFORE the SNAP logo comes up that only displays on the crt.

Alt-F5 and alt-F4 were both added to later kernels. I think Scott added
them in 2001. Like Alt-F4 it will stop on each driver and ask if you want
to load it, skip it, or process everything without stopping any longer. It
takes forever, but it is great for finding a driver that is causing a boot
problem. It does not work for everything. It doesn't show IFS loading,
BASEDEV drivers or PSD lines. So the difference is that Alt-F5 will
display the Alt-F1 boot screen, while Alt-F4 just shows the drivers being
loaded. so if you alreay used Alt-F4 there is no point to using Alt-F5
except you can select hardware detection off the
boot screen.

>
> Once the install finished, everything worked, except that I haven't had
> time to check out the modem. PCI shows:
>
> Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
> Device 24C6h 82801DB/DBL AC'97 Modem Controller (ICH4/ICH4-L A1 Step)
>
> Do you know if there is any hope for this? I couldn't find anything the
> compatibility list at on os2warp.be, and a preliminary search on Google
> turned up nothing that looked useful. I'm probably not using the right
> search terms! :-)>
>

Its a winmodem, it is useless under OS/2.

Mark

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