Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schnellbacher Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.ecomstation Subject: Re: eCS won't boot : Driver not licensed?? (Used to work fine) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 12:34:46 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <066be390-c1b0-4b9f-8b5e-2b449f311e60@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net FhZ+JbQmS5F/j3PStmfOeAGjCwZ4g0DWuOXZmcQ5ZbsEDy4izMBnYn3pjFhCcANmovTFUZeaBEUoFnMxsQTv6Q== NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 11:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="ThfOr8ZE/Q7L2hK/6qmrORpKgRFXuvGtQ4yoXlQKl3Fcm0a414o6ANA55Iwwgdu7Bpf1xLpVbVOTGwlBhJSlM/q5fsdm3KhBpdvLXBnMcT5KVcSUfJCU9knwTMLOZ+we"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 SeaMonkey/2.35 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:FZZkrHf25qew2Us1olvDKI4EQpg= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.os2.ecomstation:1160 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