My machine is Thinkpad T61p, it had been my daily driver and I used eCS--
as my primary OS. It actually quad-boots eCS (JFS), Win7-32bit,
openSUSE and PCBSD.
It went idle for a while when I upgraded to a new laptop but recently
had to boot it up to grab some data. However, when it tries to boot
eCS, it stops saying that the driver (which driver?) is only licensed
for eComstation and won't work on OS/2. This _is_ eComstation and I do
have a license.
It got past ACPI? Says 1 processor active and then something else and
then stops.
I have a clone of the drive (unfortunately much older, so data not up
to date) and when I plug that into the laptop, it has no trouble
booting to eCS.
What are my options? I'm hesitant to re-install. Typically I put all my
data on a separate logical drive but the pain of having to re-install
all my apps is a big headache (plus I'm not sure if some of the data is
on the boot drive).
Alt-F1 will come up, but booting to just the command prompt won't even
work, it comes up with the same message.
Any tips? Suggestions? I'm not opposed to buying ArcaOS if that can
somehow recover my system by re-installing. I still have the eCS disks
(I think...?) but not sure what I can do to recover, hesitant to put it
in yet.
My machine is Thinkpad T61p, it had been my daily driver and I used eCS as my primary OS. It actually quad-boots eCS (JFS), Win7-32bit, openSUSE and PCBSD._is_ eComstation and I do have a license.
It went idle for a while when I upgraded to a new laptop but recently had to boot it up to grab some data. However, when it tries to boot eCS, it stops saying that the driver (which driver?) is only licensed for eComstation and won't work on OS/2. This
It got past ACPI? Says 1 processor active and then something else and then stops.
I have a clone of the drive (unfortunately much older, so data not up to date) and when I plug that into the laptop, it has no trouble booting to eCS.
What are my options? I'm hesitant to re-install. Typically I put all my data on a separate logical drive but the pain of having to re-install all my apps is a big headache (plus I'm not sure if some of the data is on the boot drive).
Alt-F1 will come up, but booting to just the command prompt won't even work, it comes up with the same message.
Any tips? Suggestions? I'm not opposed to buying ArcaOS if that can somehow recover my system by re-installing. I still have the eCS disks (I think...?) but not sure what I can do to recover, hesitant to put it in yet.
HiThis _is_ eComstation and I do have a license.
a****com wrote:
My machine is Thinkpad T61p, it had been my daily driver and I used eCS as my primary OS. It actually quad-boots eCS (JFS), Win7-32bit, openSUSE and PCBSD.
It went idle for a while when I upgraded to a new laptop but recently had to boot it up to grab some data. However, when it tries to boot eCS, it stops saying that the driver (which driver?) is only licensed for eComstation and won't work on OS/2.
It got past ACPI? Says 1 processor active and then something else and then stops.
This is a but of a guess but the only way I know of that eCS can be distinguished from OS/2 would be for an eCS driver/software to check for
the file [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG
If the above file is missing - or maybe corrupt - I guess an ecs driver could decide that it is not installed on ecs.
I think the 1st thing I would do is a chkdsk just to make sure there are
no filesystem problems then double check the existence of the [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG file and that the contents of the file are unmangled text.
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On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 7:16:54 AM UTC-8, Pete wrote:This _is_ eComstation and I do have a license.
Hi
a****com wrote:
My machine is Thinkpad T61p, it had been my daily driver and I used eCS as my primary OS. It actually quad-boots eCS (JFS), Win7-32bit, openSUSE and PCBSD.
It went idle for a while when I upgraded to a new laptop but recently had to boot it up to grab some data. However, when it tries to boot eCS, it stops saying that the driver (which driver?) is only licensed for eComstation and won't work on OS/2.
It got past ACPI? Says 1 processor active and then something else and then stops.
This is a but of a guess but the only way I know of that eCS can be distinguished from OS/2 would be for an eCS driver/software to check for the file [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG
If the above file is missing - or maybe corrupt - I guess an ecs driver could decide that it is not installed on ecs.
I think the 1st thing I would do is a chkdsk just to make sure there are no filesystem problems then double check the existence of the [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG file and that the contents of the file are unmangled text.
Hmm...that sounds like it might be the easier option. I will try to boot from my even older T40p with that as an external drive. I'm a bit hesitant to boot from the cloned drive because I think I've seen funny things happen before doing that since I'vemounted a drive with exactly the same objects duplicated...
Ok, still no luck.
I'm not sure which driver thinks it's borked, it scrolls through all of them and then clears the screen.
I see the Integrated ACPI Support Driver for eComstation v 3.18 has loaded and then it is
Power Management for eComstation v1.31
and then it says "This driver is licensed for use only in conjunction with eComstation..."
It might be the JFS driver if I recall what a good boot looks like, but then if that's the case, how did it get this far?
I tried booting with my good disk and this "bad" one connected as external but it only sees my data partition (also JFS). I tried booting with eCS 2.1 CD#1 but same problem, the C:\ drive where everything boots from doesn't seem to be visible.
Any other tips?
Can I re-install eCS but no format? I have DFSee but not sure what could be broken...this disk is good, all the other OS boot fine. eCS starts the boot at least and the last I recall this computer had always been booting eCS just fine (it was myprimary OS until I switched laptops).
Ok, still no luck.primary OS until I switched laptops).
I'm not sure which driver thinks it's borked, it scrolls through all of them and then clears the screen.
I see the Integrated ACPI Support Driver for eComstation v 3.18 has loaded and then it is
Power Management for eComstation v1.31
and then it says "This driver is licensed for use only in conjunction with eComstation..."
It might be the JFS driver if I recall what a good boot looks like, but then if that's the case, how did it get this far?
I tried booting with my good disk and this "bad" one connected as external but it only sees my data partition (also JFS). I tried booting with eCS 2.1 CD#1 but same problem, the C:\ drive where everything boots from doesn't seem to be visible.
Any other tips?
Can I re-install eCS but no format? I have DFSee but not sure what could be broken...this disk is good, all the other OS boot fine. eCS starts the boot at least and the last I recall this computer had always been booting eCS just fine (it was my
On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 9:01:07 PM UTC-8, atomi...@gmail.com wrote:
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This _is_ eComstation and I do have a license.On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 7:16:54 AM UTC-8, Pete wrote:
Hi
a****com wrote:
My machine is Thinkpad T61p, it had been my daily driver and I used eCS as my primary OS. It actually quad-boots eCS (JFS), Win7-32bit, openSUSE and PCBSD.
It went idle for a while when I upgraded to a new laptop but recently had to boot it up to grab some data. However, when it tries to boot eCS, it stops saying that the driver (which driver?) is only licensed for eComstation and won't work on OS/2.
It got past ACPI? Says 1 processor active and then something else and then stops.
This is a but of a guess but the only way I know of that eCS can be distinguished from OS/2 would be for an eCS driver/software to check for the file [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG
If the above file is missing - or maybe corrupt - I guess an ecs driver could decide that it is not installed on ecs.
I think the 1st thing I would do is a chkdsk just to make sure there are no filesystem problems then double check the existence of the [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG file and that the contents of the file are unmangled text.
ve mounted a drive with exactly the same objects duplicated...Hmm...that sounds like it might be the easier option. I will try to boot from my even older T40p with that as an external drive. I'm a bit hesitant to boot from the cloned drive because I think I've seen funny things happen before doing that since I'
This is a but of a guess but the only way I know of that eCS can be distinguished from OS/2 would be for an eCS driver/software to check for the file [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG
If the above file is missing - or maybe corrupt - I guess an ecs driver could decide that it is not installed on ecs.
I think the 1st thing I would do is a chkdsk just to make sure there are no filesystem problems then double check the existence of the [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG file and that the contents of the file are unmangled text.
On 17.01.19 16:16, Pete wrote:
This is a but of a guess but the only way I know of that eCS can be distinguished from OS/2 would be for an eCS driver/software to check for the
file [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG
If the above file is missing - or maybe corrupt - I guess an ecs driver could
decide that it is not installed on ecs.
I think the 1st thing I would do is a chkdsk just to make sure there are no filesystem problems then double check the existence of the [BootDrive]:\ecs\ECS_INST.FLG file and that the contents of the file are unmangled text.
Another guess: I find it more likely that these files are involved:
?:\OS2\ecsreg.ini
?:\OS2\ecsreg11.ini (since eCS 1.1)
?:\ecs\dll\SECURIT2.DLL
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