[iyonix-support] Re: 5.18 Upgrade problems
- From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Support list <iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:53:22 +0000 (GMT)
On Fri 02 Mar, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> First of all, please excuse what is going to be a long tale of woe!
>
> Having just taken the plunge and re-flashed the new operating system (5.18)
> on my Iyonix, I was first dismayed that on re-booting there was an error
> message that ADFS was not found, and I was presented with a very basic
> desktop with no hard-discs.
> Pressing F12 & *fx0 told me that 5.18 was running ok.
> Having realised that ADFS was 'unplugged' & *rmreinit'ed it all was
> restored to normality on re-booting - with one exception: no Task Manager
> icon in the right hand corner, and F12 has no effect, so it seems I have no
> access to * commands.
>
> Thinking that perhaps a further re-boot might restore things, I tried
> again. This time there was a Task Manager icon, but in addition although
> the mouse pointer moved the buttons had no effect on anything on the
> desktop and there was still no action from F12. I then noticed the clock
> was stationary in Organizer so hit Alt/Break and stopped "Unknown".
> This at least allowed the mouse buttons to function, but I was still unable
> to access * commands because trying to open a task window from the manager
> had no effect. There seemed to still be something unwanted running, so
> again I pressed Alt/Break and this time selecting "Stop" left it
> highlighted without doing anything. I pressed Alt/Break again and this time
> selecting "Cancel" also left that highlighted.
>
> A further re-boot (where I am up to when writing this) and there is still
> no Task Manager, F12 has no effect, and to get this far I had to 'Stop'
> some 'Unknown' but at least most things seem to work!
>
> I had better post this while I can, and hope that someone out there can
> tell me what is going on, and how to restore normality. Please!
>From the ROOL Forum:
Try:
*unplug
*RMREINIT any module that you are not sure should be unplugged
Chris Evans
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