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Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine)

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ALT-F2 at the boot blob should list the drivers as it tries to load
them.  This may help you determine which driver it is having trouble
with.  But I would strongly suggest that you download DFSee (Windows,
Linux, bootable CD image, or one of the other options) and copy/clone
the partition(s) you are having problems with, so you have a good backup
before you make any changes.  If you can boot the older clone of the
system, and access the bad drive externally, you could do an XCOPY /H /O
/T /S /E /R /V to another partition to preserve your data.

Ron Klein

In <066be390-c1b0-4b9f-8b5e-2b449f311e60@googlegroups.com>, on 01/16/19 
   at 08:10 PM, atomic.frog@gmail.com said:



>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.
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MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.67
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eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) atomic.frog@gmail.com - 2019-01-16 20:10 -0800
  Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) rklein46@roadrunner.com - 2019-01-16 21:45 -0800
  Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) Pete <losepete@losepete.plus.com> - 2019-01-17 15:16 +0000
    Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) atomic.frog@gmail.com - 2019-01-17 21:01 -0800
      Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) atomic.frog@gmail.com - 2019-02-02 18:43 -0800
        Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2019-02-02 20:37 -0800
        Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) "Barbara" <bca.1824@knot.gmail.com> - 2019-02-03 21:31 +0000
    Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) Andreas Schnellbacher <aschn@despammed.com> - 2019-03-09 12:34 +0100
      Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) atomic.frog@gmail.com - 2019-03-10 20:02 -0700

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