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→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **critor** » 29 Apr 2017, 21:33

@parrotgeek1 He has an HW-D non-CAS CX.

Here's his partitions setup :

partition Boot2 :
- Boot1.5 : 4.3.49
- Boot2 : 4.3.49

partition Diags :
- CtrlX : 4.4.3
- Diags : 3.10.20

Partition ExtnD :
- CtrlX : 4.4.5
- Boot2 : 4.3.49

Installing CX CAS OS 4.4 with the little how-to posted sooner in this topic just gets him a reboot-loop.
Even with an empty /ndless/startup/ folder...

@Bisam Some idea...
If you can come to http://www.orme-multimedia.org/r2017/ on May 31st, maybe I could exchange a patched CX with yours.
And then have fun (or not...

) trying to figure out what's wrong.

The hardware revision shouldn't be a problem - the patch is working on more recent revisions than your HW-D.
And the older is the hardware revision, the better is the compatibility.

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **parrotgeek1** » 29 Apr 2017, 21:42

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **critor** » 29 Apr 2017, 21:45

No sorry, only the 4.4 CAS-one.
I'm editing my post.

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **Bisam** » 29 Apr 2017, 21:47

@critor : I won't go down to Marseille just to have a new OS on my calc ! I didn't even know about Orme 2017...

@parrotgeek1 : critor made a mistake : I can of course install non-CAS OSes, but not the OS ones with version >3.6.

But as I said I may buy some tools.
I don't own a Raspberry Pi nor an Arduino... but I may use one at school : I know they have some.
But I definitely would rather have my own piece of material !

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **parrotgeek1** » 29 Apr 2017, 21:59

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **jaroslavN** » 30 Apr 2017, 16:51

forgot to say it's HW-J ( that's why it worked for me..
(and why do i need the patcher ,i have it on there, can't open or use it...)

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **critor** » 30 Apr 2017, 17:02

If you install a 3.9+ OS not targeting your model, the patcher is required for you to be able to use calculations-related features.
Without it, using any calculations-related feature is going to trigger a reboot.

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **geekpersonman** » 30 Apr 2017, 18:44

critor wrote:@parrotgeek1 He has an HW-D non-CAS CX.

The hardware revision shouldn't be a problem - the patch is working on more recent revisions than your HW-D.
And the older is the hardware revision, the better is the compatibility.

I can successfully verify that that the complete nBoot /ControlX / CASPatcher package works completely fine on my HW-E.
@Bisam Have you tried using NSwithcOS to switch in to cas rather than the computer or vice-versa?

→ **MyCalcs** profile · by **Bisam** » 30 Apr 2017, 23:59

I tested many cases :
- with or without nSwitchOS
- with different OSes >3.6 (almost tried all of them)
- with or without ndless/startup items (holding [Esc] during startup or removing them)
- with different versions of ControlX (4.4.4 et 4.4.5-beta)

All of them leaded to the same fact : CAS OS rebooting again and again, just after installing itself.

If someone finds a way to fix that, I would be glad.

PS : If I only have to borrow an USB/ttl interface and a few cables to give more information, I think we could have some more on Wednesday evening. I'm pretty sure that the lab at the highschool where I work have some.