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

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On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 3:34:49 AM UTC-8, Andreas Schnellbacher wrote:
> 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

So I cloned the drive first, then booted with the eCS 2.1 CD and tried to fiddle with the various recovery tools and options

There did seem to be some LVM error so I let it fix that and re-booted. Still no luck, but then I noticed that in the process it had also somehow lost a drive letter, so I re-assigned C: to the drive and re-booted again... and success! Up and running again!

Thanks for everyone's suggestions!

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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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