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

From	Andreas Schnellbacher <aschn@despammed.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.ecomstation
Subject	Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine)
Date	2019-03-09 12:34 +0100
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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

-- 
Andreas Schnellbacher

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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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