[haiku-development] Re: Making updated partition bootable
- From: pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:42:40 -0700
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:10:47AM +0000, Michael Lotz wrote:
> Hi Pete
>
> Just to make sure, you have nothing laying around from the old install,
> right? If you only copy over the new stuff and leave the old stuff in
> place you can end up having both ATA and IDE installed. That's not a
> good situation.
Gaahh... I never learn, do I? (:-() Yes, that was the problem.
The difficulty is that there's always stuff already on the partition
that I'd rather keep, so my first thought is an overlay. [But I've
been bitten before, so I should know by now.]
I guess all one really needs to make sure is erased is the previous
system hierarchy (which is what I did this time, and it seems OK).
Maybe the Installer could do that (warning the user first), as
update-installs are likely to be fairly frequent with Haiku for
a while!
(I also copied over only the new 'system', so there are little things
like broken links, but so far nothing fatal or unobvious. I'll just
do a full Install now, which should fix those.)
Thanks!
-- Pete --
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