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

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Hi

atomic.frog@gmail.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. This _is_ eComstation and I do have a license.
>
> 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.


Regards

Pete



>
> 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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eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) atomic.frog@gmail.com - 2019-01-16 20:10 -0800
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  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
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