Bootable won't

rafe

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Aug 27, 2009, 1:24:07 PM8/27/09

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I have spent a number of hours trying, but cannot get BOOTABLE to
create a maintenance partition that will boot. every attempt I make
results in a hang with the eCS 2.0 RCa logo hanging on SCREEN01.SYS.
(which is also what happens every time I try to boot an old
maintenance partition with any more recent kernel file installed.)

I run

L:\OS2\bootAble\bootAble.cmd L\OS2\bootAble\bootAble.MyConfig L:
\OS2\bootAble\bootAble.MyConfigasked

here is the pertinent stuff from bootAble.MyConfig

VERBOSE=64+1
LXLITE='No'
CRREATECLONECD='No'
BOOTMESSAGES='Yes'
PAUSEBEFOREBOOTIMAGE='No'
COPYCONFIGSYS='Yes'
HPFSAUTOCHECK='No'
JFSAUTOCHECK='No'
HPFS386AUTOCHECK='No'
EARLYMEMINIT='No'
WRITEASKEDTOFILE='Yes'
WRITEASKEDTOFILEALREADYEXISTS='A'
WRITEASKEDTOFILENAME='bootAble.MyConfigasked'
FORMATMAINTENANCE='No'
STARTUPCMDEXIT='Yes'
WPSEXTRAFONTFILES=''
WPSEXTRAPFMFONTFILES=''
EXTRAFILES='L:\OS2\bootAble\extras\DFSEEBAX\* L:\OS2\bootAble\extras
\09E08-26.zip L:\OS2\dfsee8xx\os2\*'
EXTRADLLFILES=''
EXTRAHELPFILES=''
DLLBASINGLINE='Yes'
WPSFULLWINDOWDRAG='No'
NETWORKINGDESTINATION='CD'
PAUSEBEFOREFINALIZING='No'
CDRECORDCLEANDIRBEFORE='Yes'
CDRECORDCLEANDIRAFTER='Yes'
PAUSEAFTERQUESTIONS='NO'
PAUSEBEFOREEXIT='YES'
MAKEROOM='No'
CDBOOTMENU='No'
CREATEBOOTCD='No'
AUTOBURNCD='No'
RSJATTACHCD='No'
ERASECD='No'
WRITERDRIVE='E:'
VIDEODRIVER=3
WPSSHELLFONTSIZE=3
WPSTTFSUPPORT='No'
WPSUNIFONTSUPPORT='No'
REXX='Yes'
OS2APPS='Yes'
STARTUPCMD=,
EXTRACONFIGSYS=,
''

RAMDISK='No'

/
****************************************************************************/
/* End of
bootAble.MyConfig */
/
****************************************************************************/

and bootAble.MyConfigasked:

APPSRCZIPWPI_DFSEE='L:\OS2\boootAble\dfsee8xx.zip'
APPKEYFILE_DFSEE='L:\OS2\dfsee8xx\raphael_ray-field-com#U.key'
FORMATMAINTENANCEJFS='No'
WPSEPM='No'
WPSREGEDIT2='YES'
WPSXWP='No'
OS2EXTRA='Yes'
EMXRT='No'
GCCRT='No'
OBJECTREXX='No'
NETWORKING='No'
ADDTOSEARCHPATH=''
WPS='Yes'
WPSBOOT='Yes'
WPSAPPS='Yes'
VIDEORESOLUTION='1'
VIDEOCOLORDEPTH='1'
SNAPSEDISTRIBUTIONFILE='H:\PROGRAMS\snapse491.exe'

-rafe t.

ivan

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Aug 27, 2009, 5:22:42 PM8/27/09

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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:24:07 UTC, rafe <rayyfi...@gmail.com>
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You could try using just VGA insted of snap. Then if it boots add
snap.

ivan
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ray field

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Aug 27, 2009, 5:33:51 PM8/27/09

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On Aug 27, 5:22 pm, "ivan" <iva...@free.fr> wrote:

>
> You could try using just VGA insted of snap. Then if it boots add
> snap.
>
> ivan
> --

thanks for the idea -- the funny thing is I had been trying with VGA
all along, changing to SNAP was one of the last things I did.

not sure I'm going to have any choice but do install another full eCS
beta into another partition!

Doug Bissett

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Aug 28, 2009, 2:15:52 PM8/28/09

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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:24:07 UTC, rafe <rayyfi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have spent a number of hours trying, but cannot get BOOTABLE to

What happened to MyConfigAddOn.list ???

I suspect that something is missing.
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dougb007 at telus dot net
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ray field

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Aug 28, 2009, 5:34:18 PM8/28/09

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after some back and forth with Doug B, I managed to get a maintenance
partition up and running by

1) following the directions for manually adding ACPI support in \ecs
\DOC\ACPI\ACPI.doc, then

2) configuring SNAP for very basic VGA support:

VIDEODRIVER=3

VIDEORESOLUTION=0
WPSSHELLFONTSIZE=3

VIDEOCOLORDEPTH=1

not especially fast, but stable.