[openbeos] Re: Second patch release bug & Michael Phipps status
- From: Chris Simmons <technix4beos@xxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:57:34 -0800 (PST)
Do you want TBJ and others to warn people to not download the patch, or is
there going to be a fix RSN ?;)-C--- Daniel Reinhold wrote:> Ok folks, here's
the lowdown...> > The second patch release has been posted on the> Sourceforge
Files page. > It is called 'OpenBeOS-20020315' and you don't> want to run it.>
> Let me repeat: DO NOT RUN THIS INSTALL!!!> > The installer has a serious bug:
all the system> files are moved from > the standard location
(/boot/beos/system) on> the boot drive. It makes > the partition unbootable.
The files are all> still there -- at /boot/> home/Desktop/OpenBeOS/Saved
Files/system.> Unfortunately, /boot/beos/> system is left empty.> > It appears
to be a case of moving files instead> of copying them. > Whatever the foulup,
you cannot boot the> partition after running the > install and re-starting the
machine. Michael> Phipps was bitten by this > himself and is thus now without a
working BeOS> system. He tested the > installation on his one and only BeOS
partition> (tisk, tisk) which is > now unbootable. He was able to send me an
email> from his wife's > machine, but he has asked me to let everyone> know
that he will be > unavailable thru email for a few days until he> has this
fixed. > Unfortunately, as project admin, he's the only> guy with the power to
> remove the patch file from the Sourceforge> page, so we'll have to stare > at
it for a few days.> > If you have a second BeOS partition, then it's> no big
deal to fix the > problem. Just mount the troublesome drive while> in the other
partition > and copy all the system files back. For> example, the following
command > line should do it:> > cp -rf "/BOOT/home/Desktop/OpenBeOS/Saved>
Files/system" /BOOT/beos> > only replace 'BOOT' with the real mount name> for
the volume that the > install was run on.> > If someone downloaded this patch,
installed it> on their one and only > BeOS partition (as Michael did), then
they've> got a definite problem. > If they have a valid R5 CD that can be
booted> from, great -- just boot > from this and do the copy command as above.>
Michael evidently can't go > the CD route because his dual processor machine>
won't let him (not sure > why). People in this circumstance will have to> find
a way to boot a > BeOS partition so they can copy the system> files back. One
route, if > need be, would be to download the BeOS Personal> Edition for
Windows (or > Linux) and use that to boot from. There are> probably other, more
> drastic recovery techniques that are too ugly> to mention. I'm not going > to
worry about this too much yet, tho: I'm not> sure that anyone > (besides
Michael) has been bitten by this.> Nobody may have even noticed > the new patch
download file was there yet> anyway.> > Anyway, that's the scoop.>
-Chris Simmons,
Avid BeOS User.
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