[Discussion] Loading eCS on a Dell XPS 210 with Windows XP

[Don]

Ira,
You could try it. Something in the Dell BIOS is killing the install. You 
have to get through the BIOS to do the installation. Have you tried alt 
F2. I found the darn thing died at the LVM driver.
You can probably bypass the Checking Disk Integrity if you have done it 
once. I am pretty sure that is only analyzing your installation CD.

I tried everything I could with no luck at all. I plugged the drive back 
into my old Presario P3 with no problem at all.

I believe some of the changes to eCS are not as clean as should be. I 
have 3 eCS partitions 1.2R, RC5 and RC6. If I boot into 1.2 then come 
back to RC6a, I get an error stating that OS/2 cannot read my disks so 
correct the error. Sometimes I can get to the maintenance setup or do 
something like reset to vga. If I F2 I see that it is the LVM that is 
hanging. This is the driver that failed on my Dell unit, so I am not 
sure if you can get to an external drive successfully. If I recall I 
started have partition issues as well, so tread carefully if your 
personal data is exposed.
I remember waiting for a long time to install Warp 3 on a 386 with 4 MB 
ram at Comdex in the mid 90's. The install was painfully slow but it 
completed on just about every box we tried. But it did install and ran 
fine. Some of the improvements Serenity have made are great, sh*t like 
this install issue belong elsewhere.

Don Burch


Ira N. Saxe wrote:
> Don, would an external drive solve my problem?  Regards, Ira Saxe
>
>
> Feb 6, 2009 09:15:57 PM, discussion at lists.possi.org 
> <mailto:discussion at lists.possi.org> wrote:
>
>     Ira,
>     I wish I could be of more help. I went to good old eBay and picked
>     up a couple of Intel based boards that were not of Dell origin and
>     have not had any problems with RC 5 or 6a.
>     I have little patience when it comes to dealing with these
>     proprietary BIOS and the like. Dell, like HP and Compaq use to be
>     a leader. Then they started building limitations into the BIOS to
>     control their customers ability to modify beyond their skill of
>     their call center support staff.
>     If you really want eCS, get another mainboard or a second PC
>     completely.
>     That is what I have. I have a 4 port KVM switch OS/2, my Windows,
>     work Windows and a fourth for building or diagnostics for friends.
>
>     Don
>
>     Ira N. Saxe wrote:
>>     In another try at Loading eCS RC5, the below occured.
>>     Under F2 Setup, Drives and SATA Operations,  I changer my
>>     settings from AHCI to ATA.  Then, Windows wouldn't start.
>>     Next, eCS CD5 seemed to be loading until it got past Checking
>>     Disk Integity and Preparing to Start Installer.  Then, various
>>     colored screens appeared, followed by a freeze with scattered
>>     white blocks on the screen.  I repeated the procedure with ACPI
>>     disabled with the same result.
>>     Next, I changed my drives setting back from ATA to AHCI and
>>     Windows works OK. Regards, Ira Saxe
>>
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