eCS2 RC4 - No boot after phase 1

Hi all, 

I tried installing again eCS 2 RC4, using Terabyte BootIt as suggested 
previously. BootIt is a very nice utility, however the problem I encounter 
is not related to any boot manager.
Vista is installed on HD0, and I really don't want to touch it. eCS is to 
be installed on HD1. Both disks are 250GB. I partitioned HD1 the following 
way:
- IBM Boot Manager (7.8MB)
- Bootit (7.8MB)
- eCS (65,499 MB)
- Extended partition for Windows data (119GB)
- Extended partition for eCS Data (53GB)

After updating Daniela's drivers on the installation CD to 1.8.2, the 
installer works through phase 1.

However, after the end of phase one and the reboot of the PC, I see the 
eCS boot blob for 1/10th of a second, then it immediately reboots again.
If I try redirecting BootIt to boot the IBM Boot Manager (I though BootIt 
may not want to boot eCS directly), then nothing happens and the IBM boot 
manager does not start.
All the partitioning has been done with DFSee, because the installer gives 
me weird errors (cannot create partition when there is ample space, cannot 
make the IBM boot manager startable, cannot even delete the IBM boot 
manager !)

What may be wrong with my partitioning or the way everything is set up ?

Thanks in advance to everyone who can help me a bit !

AyPP

Aymeric-Pierre Peyret wrote:
> Hi all,
> I tried installing again eCS 2 RC4, using Terabyte BootIt as suggested 
> previously. BootIt is a very nice utility, however the problem I 
> encounter is not related to any boot manager.
> Vista is installed on HD0, and I really don't want to touch it. eCS is 
> to be installed on HD1. Both disks are 250GB. I partitioned HD1 the 
> following way:
> - IBM Boot Manager (7.8MB)
> - Bootit (7.8MB)
> - eCS (65,499 MB)
> - Extended partition for Windows data (119GB)
> - Extended partition for eCS Data (53GB)
> 
> After updating Daniela's drivers on the installation CD to 1.8.2, the 
> installer works through phase 1.
> 
> However, after the end of phase one and the reboot of the PC, I see the 
> eCS boot blob for 1/10th of a second, then it immediately reboots again.
> If I try redirecting BootIt to boot the IBM Boot Manager (I though 
> BootIt may not want to boot eCS directly), then nothing happens and the 
> IBM boot manager does not start.
> All the partitioning has been done with DFSee, because the installer 
> gives me weird errors (cannot create partition when there is ample 
> space, cannot make the IBM boot manager startable, cannot even delete 
> the IBM boot manager !)
> 
> What may be wrong with my partitioning or the way everything is set up ?
> 
> Thanks in advance to everyone who can help me a bit !


How much RAM is in this machine ? Please open a ticket for this on 
eComSTtaion.com (bugtracker!).
3 or 4 GB, pull a gigabyte out please.

Roderick Klein

Roderick Klein wrote:

> Aymeric-Pierre Peyret wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I tried installing again eCS 2 RC4, using Terabyte BootIt as suggested

>> previously. BootIt is a very nice utility, however the problem I 
>> encounter is not related to any boot manager.
>> Vista is installed on HD0, and I really don't want to touch it. eCS is

>> to be installed on HD1. Both disks are 250GB. I partitioned HD1 the 
>> following way:
>> - IBM Boot Manager (7.8MB)
>> - Bootit (7.8MB)
>> - eCS (65,499 MB)
>> - Extended partition for Windows data (119GB)
>> - Extended partition for eCS Data (53GB)
>> 
>> After updating Daniela's drivers on the installation CD to 1.8.2, the 
>> installer works through phase 1.
>> 
>> However, after the end of phase one and the reboot of the PC, I see the

>> eCS boot blob for 1/10th of a second, then it immediately reboots
again.
>> If I try redirecting BootIt to boot the IBM Boot Manager (I though 
>> BootIt may not want to boot eCS directly), then nothing happens and the

>> IBM boot manager does not start.
>> All the partitioning has been done with DFSee, because the installer 
>> gives me weird errors (cannot create partition when there is ample 
>> space, cannot make the IBM boot manager startable, cannot even delete 
>> the IBM boot manager !)
>> 
>> What may be wrong with my partitioning or the way everything is set up
?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance to everyone who can help me a bit !


> How much RAM is in this machine ? Please open a ticket for this on 
> eComSTtaion.com (bugtracker!).
> 3 or 4 GB, pull a gigabyte out please.

> Roderick Klein
> Mensys

Hi Roderick,

yes there are 4GB of RAM in the machine. I hope I can try with less RAM 
without damaging any component, I am not that good at hardware work on 
laptops.
BTW ticket is posted !

AyPP

AyPP

Roderick Klein wrote:

> Aymeric-Pierre Peyret wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I tried installing again eCS 2 RC4, using Terabyte BootIt as suggested

>> previously. BootIt is a very nice utility, however the problem I 
>> encounter is not related to any boot manager.
>> Vista is installed on HD0, and I really don't want to touch it. eCS is

>> to be installed on HD1. Both disks are 250GB. I partitioned HD1 the 
>> following way:
>> - IBM Boot Manager (7.8MB)
>> - Bootit (7.8MB)
>> - eCS (65,499 MB)
>> - Extended partition for Windows data (119GB)
>> - Extended partition for eCS Data (53GB)
>> 
>> After updating Daniela's drivers on the installation CD to 1.8.2, the 
>> installer works through phase 1.
>> 
>> However, after the end of phase one and the reboot of the PC, I see the

>> eCS boot blob for 1/10th of a second, then it immediately reboots
again.
>> If I try redirecting BootIt to boot the IBM Boot Manager (I though 
>> BootIt may not want to boot eCS directly), then nothing happens and the

>> IBM boot manager does not start.
>> All the partitioning has been done with DFSee, because the installer 
>> gives me weird errors (cannot create partition when there is ample 
>> space, cannot make the IBM boot manager startable, cannot even delete 
>> the IBM boot manager !)
>> 
>> What may be wrong with my partitioning or the way everything is set up
?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance to everyone who can help me a bit !


> How much RAM is in this machine ? Please open a ticket for this on 
> eComSTtaion.com (bugtracker!).
> 3 or 4 GB, pull a gigabyte out please.

> Roderick Klein
> Mensys

Update: reducing the RAM to 2GB allowed the installation to go through. I 
then changed the temporary SS2TICB driver to APSoft SSPCIC driver (which 
detects my O2Micro cardbus adapter as "Intel 82365SL C").

However, I got a couple problems later:
- if I keep the APIC mode for the SMP, the system crashes while booting (a 
few instants after loading the network drivers, and maybe something else)
- if I change it to PIC mode, I get a TRAP 8 (double-fault...) when the 
PMShell is loaded. Maybe the swapper.dat is corrupted, I will try using 
another name.

I commented out the NTFS driver (that is sometimes problematic) but it did 
not solve the problem.

Note that after the installation, if I go back to 4GB, the system boots, 
but it still does not go all the way through (Trap 8 still happening), and 
i get some SYS1206 for the drivers that load at the end of config.sys 
(Uniaud, EVFS and another one)

AyPP

PS: Roderick: I am adding this information to the ticket.

OK, it's time to post bug-reports to the tracker

http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1

login: guest, password: netlabs) and press "New ticket"

how to collect logs? http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=logs