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Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:06:50 -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:
> 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.

Mark

>
> 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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