wrote:
> I will when it stops complaining about my partition
> tables on "used" HDDs.
> three JFS partitions on
> a 500G PATA. No-go.
>
> didn't even like
> that partition table.
>
> I rebooted, the first drive is seen, IVM complains
> about the second drive.
>
> Nor will it
> create a bootable partition. It goes thru the
> motions and then says LVM
> error (33) Selected partition is not bootable. Yes,
> I selected make it
> bootable.
>
> Yet on my laptop 1.2RM and 2.0 RC4 both installed
> OK.
>
I'm going to assume that you know what you are doing a
lot better than I would. (Pretty safe assumption.)
Still, as I said, variable results. There are still
gaps in need of plugging. In a more perfect world,
with a notably larger user base and more resources
(human and $$) for testing a much bigger range of
hardware circumstances, many more of these would be
overcome.
At present, I think all you can do is call attention
to it on the newsgroups or Google Groups (or is it
Yahoo Groups ? -- I forget), and maybe file the odd
problem ticket at Serenity. This may not avail you
anything, but at least you will have done what you
could do about it.
> I also find eCS to be fragile. It will randomly
> stop booting at some basedev. Maybe till the
> next boot, maybe forever.
I've seen HDD partitions get rejected by the installer
for very unclear reasons, but I haven't seen THAT one.
In my experience, if it works *and nothing gets
changed*, it works. Change a hardware item or even
just some small change to line(s) in CONFIG.SYS, and
strange or bad things can happen. But lines that
change with bad results can be changed back again.
There should not be any voodoo at work here.
> All HDDs are front panel plug-in.
Are you sure there is nothing hincky that could be
going on there ? Signal integrity, bent pins, or
______ ?
I've heard of some OS issues (not just for OS/2) with
plug-in drives before, and this does concern me, since
I was leaning towards trying out such a setup in my
next tower rebuild.
Jordan
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