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Secure Zone Problem

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I have been experimenting with Secure Zone (On a spare computer) and there is something about it that I don’t understand.

Boot up.
Press F11 when notified
At this point, a window is supposed to open which allows a choice between TI home and Windows. But out of 10 tries, only the first two opened this window. The rest of the time it went directly to Windows without offering a choice.

What happened and how do I fix it?

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It is not unheard of that key pressing doesn't register all the time during boot up.
If it happens randomly, it is more likely an issue of timing.
If it stops working, then deactivate the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and reactivate it.

Thanks for the reply.

I did try reactivating the Secure Zone and that didn't help. I hate to imagine that there is some kind of timing issue with F11.

Since the above post, I have experienced even more disturbing behavior: The day after the post, I tried it again and the first time the message came up: “F11—Acronis Loader Unable to run boot menu” and then it proceeded to load Windows. The second time everything worked as it should and the Secure Zone backup loaded successfully. The third time it again worked successfully except the procedure to find the secure zone had to be done a few times to get the software to show it properly. After that, it skipped the F11 message entirely and proceeded to load Windows.

Then, the next day, this is what happened: I booted the computer and got to the "press F11"message. Then it came up with the message "Unable to load initial ramdisk. Press "enter" to proceed". Then after I pressed "enter" it displayed the message "Loading...please wait....KernelPanic-not syncing: UFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (1,0)". At that point the program was locked up and I did a reboot and got to Windows, skipping the F11 altogether.

This morning I tried it again three times and each time it worked perfectly.

This test system has worked flawlessly for a long time and there have been no bootup problems. The hard drive checks out ok. I can only assume that there is a software issue.

Stuart,

You are probably right. The kernelpanic stuff is typical of a linux driver issue with certain disk configurations. There is nothing to fix this except a new version of ATI.
If you find yourself in a situation where F11 is not working reliably, ditch it and it is very important you produce a bootable medium for ATI that you find reliable.