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Cadiz
Caldari
No Quarter.
Vae Victis.
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:39:00 -
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Edited by: Cadiz on 06/12/2007 04:41:01
I'm having a really fun time notifying my corpmates now to "JESUS CHRIST MAKE SURE YOUR BOOT.INI IS STILL INTACT" so they don't get blindsided by this. At least one was laughing "haha, yeah right, that'd never happen"...and then I linked them to this thread. Welp. As for the ones who patched up and logged on earlier, and may have turned in for the night by now...just...wow. Yeah, they're going to be having fun here, especially the ones who aren't tech-junkies.
The people I feel really bad for? The ones who don't read EVE-O. Are they ever going to have a cheerful surprise when they reboot next time. You should probably be doing some serverwide GM broadcasts about this so people know what's up...
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Hrin
Minmatar
Merch Industrial
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:39:00 -
[92]
CCP you're pretty dumb.
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Sentinel Eeex
Caldari
DarkStar 1
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:39:00 -
[93]
 Originally by: Laeren Meraki
Yes, I applied the premium patch and now my windows boot.ini file is gone. The patch appears to delete it during the patching process instead of EVE's boot.ini.
First three lines of patch details:
Output folder: C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE
Delete file: \boot.ini
Extract: boot.ini... 100%
What's up with that!?
It's most likely a typo, I guess. Made by a dev.
Other CCP devs might be beating him, as we speak 
I wonder if CCP uses "grub.conf" as configuration filename on Linux client...
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Pseudo Ucksth
The Unpodable Supermen
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:40:00 -
[94]
Edited by: Pseudo Ucksth on 06/12/2007 04:41:16
Originally by: Jinli mei
Well, there's a way to toy with it.
**** THIS MAY NOT WORK AND IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH WHERE THE STEPS TAKE YOU ****
Be warned: I am not taking responsibility for further messing up your system. Be careful, be wise! If this seems a little trick to you don't do it.
This will only work for Windows XP Professional as I am using tools only found in XP Professional. In all reality, you should be booting into the repair console for this!
1. Go to start, right click on 'My Computer' and click Manage.
2. Once the management console is open, go to Disk Management. It could take a few seconds to load.
In the disk management you have two parts: A top part indicating all the partitions and driver letters, and a bottom part showing you the partitions and drives ordered by disk number, and then by partition locations.
3. Find what disk number your windows installation is on (for example, mine is on the C: partition, the first partition on disk 0)
Disk 0 Partition 1 should be the typical location where your windows install is. However, I can't possibly guarantee this is it.
5. Open up notepad (start, run, notepad, click ok) and paste in the following:
Quote:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(YOUR DISK #)partition(YOUR PARTITION #)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(YOUR DISK #)rdisk(0)partition(YOUR PARTITION #)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
There are two things you should notice: disk() and partition(). now set these to what you discovered in step 3, and set them both for the default switch and the operating system entry.
7. Save your boot.ini on the installation drive
8. Click Start, Run, and type in MSCONFIG
9. Select the "BOOT.INI" tab
10. Click "Check all Boot Paths"
If it gives you the OK, you should be in the clear. If it says the boot path is invalid, I recommend taking a few steps back and playing with the boot.ini more.
This is the process I did to get mine back. It will likely differ from yours, so fair warning.
http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=651401&page=1#14
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Garborg
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:40:00 -
[95]
Originally by: Digicomm
The US timezone are merely the beta testers for the patch for the EU timezones.
You should be thanking CCP for this experience.
Originally by: Garborg
Edited by: Garborg on 06/12/2007 04:32:43
Originally by: Digicomm
Sure is alot of waaaan in this thread.
God forbid tech-challenged people play this game. God-forbid you lose your OS to a patch. Funny it's waaaa
I smack everyone equally. Soz.
There's a metric shedload of articles on the internet on how-to fix these issues. Google is your friend.
CCP hire me as your technical business analyst and let me deal with these people aight. ;)
I personally WONT be having an issue with this. But I forsee a lot of less fortunate people taking thier PCs to Best Buy tomorrow, paying some kid it fix thier "broken" PC.
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Vagablonde
Minmatar
Pator Tech School
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:40:00 -
[96]
this thread belongs in crime and punishment tbqfh imho lol omfg ffs etc
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Lord MuffloN
Caldari
Aggressive Tendencies
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:40:00 -
[97]
Originally by: Digicomm
The US timezone are merely the beta testers for the patch for the EU timezones.
You should be thanking CCP for this experience.
Originally by: Garborg
Edited by: Garborg on 06/12/2007 04:32:43
Originally by: Digicomm
Sure is alot of waaaan in this thread.
God forbid tech-challenged people play this game. God-forbid you lose your OS to a patch. Funny it's waaaa
I smack everyone equally. Soz.
There's a metric shedload of articles on the internet on how-to fix these issues. Google is your friend.
CCP hire me as your technical business analyst and let me deal with these people aight. ;)
Hey hey hey, some of us EU folks actually stayed up for Trinity, me included, clock is 05:40 here now :(
Originally by: Jago Kain
If they ever decide to award a Nobel Prize for Emo, Lord MuffloN is a sure fire winner of the first on |
Ganre Sorc
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:41:00 -
[98]
good news, windows XP(pro, at least) backs up this critical file in
C:\WINDOWS\pss\boot.ini.backup
just copy paste it into root after patching,and rename it to "boot.ini"(no quotes), should be good to go, FYI, i have not tested this resolution, so if anyone wants to try it...
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Hozac
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:41:00 -
[99]
Originally by: Digicomm
There's a metric shedload of articles on the internet on how-to fix these issues. Google is your friend.
Theres also going to be a metric shedload of people who reboot before they realize that the file got deleted and then not be able to access Google once XP refuses to boot.
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CCP kieron
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:41:00 -
[100]
We have taken down the ability to download the Classic to Premium upgrade patch until we have determined where the issue lies and how we can resolve this. Full install clients have not exhibited this issue and are safe to download.
Until we have resolved this, please visit this Microsoft Knowledge Base Item.
kieron
Director of Community Relations, EVE Online
EVE Online, CCP Games
Email/Netfang
Look ma, I'm in a Dev thread! Oh wait... |
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SumDum
AirHawk Alliance
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:41:00 -
[101]
Edited by: SumDum on 06/12/2007 04:41:51
Please DO NOT take down the patch. I am stuck at work for 23 more minutes, and I intend to play tonight! I'll fix my own boot.ini file, I ran into this last week playing around with SiSi.
Originally by: CCP kieron
We have taken down the ability to download the Classic to Premium upgrade patch until we have determined where the issue lies and how we can resolve this.
Until we have resolved this, please visit this Microsoft Knowledge Base Item.
DOH!
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blake fallout
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:42:00 -
[102]
xp pro best OS ever.
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Orangir
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:42:00 -
[103]
Edited by: Orangir on 06/12/2007 04:45:08
^^^^ nice start
This is seriously one of the dumbest things I've seen a developer do. Sucks that one of your best patches yet has to be tainted by such a colossal mess-up, but you better do something quick or you're going to have a major trainwreck on your hands.
Oddly enough I wasn't hit by it even though I'm a prime candidate (Windows XP user with EVE installed on my main hard disk), I have XPized my system so I wonder if that's what spared me?
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Nayla Nycalliste
Minmatar
Zensunni Wanderers
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:43:00 -
[104]
Originally by: Daphne Eveningstar
I do not guarantee this fix for anyone.
If you make a new boot.ini and put this text in
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
Save it, and then run MSConfig from the Run box. Under the Boot.ini tab, click the "check all boot paths" to verify that you should at least be able to boot back up from one viable OS.
I use Windows MCE and I used a similar method to the one above, but instead of making a new boot.ini from scratch I located this file:-
boot.ini.backup ( look in C:\WINDOWS\pss )
copy & paste this file to root directory ( the drive that your OS is installed on, usually C:\ ) and then rename it to boot.ini
Run msconfig and click the "check all boot paths" to verify.
Reboot, hold breath... and *bingo*
Worked for me 
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Banduril
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:43:00 -
[105]
Originally by: CCP kieron
We have taken down the ability to download the Classic to Premium upgrade patch until we have determined where the issue lies and how we can resolve this. Full install clients have not exhibited this issue and are safe to download.
Until we have resolved this, please visit this Microsoft Knowledge Base Item.
thanks for this
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sian miller
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:43:00 -
[106]
Originally by: Orangir
This is seriously one of the dumbest things I've seen a developer do. Sucks that one of your best patches yet has to be tainted by such a colossal mess-up, but you better do something quick or you're going to have a major trainwreck on your hands.
yeah this will relly make the headlines.
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James 315
GoonFleet
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:45:00 -
[107]
BIGGEST
STEALTH NERF
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Digicomm
The Digital Communists
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:45:00 -
[108]
Originally by: Orangir
This is seriously one of the dumbest things I've seen a developer do. Sucks that one of your best patches yet has to be tainted by such a colossal mess-up, but you better do something quick or you're going to have a major trainwreck on your hands.
Stop poasting. This my arena aight.
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Mos Superum
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:45:00 -
[109]
Edited by: Mos Superum on 06/12/2007 04:45:41
Kieron -- can you guys do a pop-up notice about the reboot issue? At the very least? Like you did with the dying node earlier this evening?
Folks can leave their machines running at work or at home while you figure it out and provide technical assistance and/or get the word out. Those with laptops on batteries are a little S.O.L.
But seriously -- everyone's in the game enjoying the awesome graphics -- they're not reading this forum. USE THE POP-UP!!!
Mos Superum
P.S. - Rebooting now w/ instructions from earlier in this thread. I hate Recovery Console.
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Paulo Damarr
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:45:00 -
[110]
Meanwhile at CCP HQ
Originally by: Tortun Nahme
CCP also condones thinking, I suggest you try it from tiem to time
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:45:00 -
[111]
Well done ********s!
Hint: I suggest actually paying attention and quit making idiotic mistakes such as the deletion of your customers boot file.
CCP = n00bs 
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SumDum
AirHawk Alliance
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:46:00 -
[112]
Originally by: Digicomm
The US timezone are merely the beta testers for the patch for the EU timezones.
You should be thanking CCP for this experience.
Originally by: Garborg
Edited by: Garborg on 06/12/2007 04:32:43
Originally by: Digicomm
Sure is alot of waaaan in this thread.
God forbid tech-challenged people play this game. God-forbid you lose your OS to a patch. Funny it's waaaa
I smack everyone equally. Soz.
There's a metric shedload of articles on the internet on how-to fix these issues. Google is your friend.
CCP hire me as your technical business analyst and let me deal with these people aight. ;)
Lol! Most mere mortals run a single OS and single computer. While I share your sentiments, I think more people aren't posting about this because they can't.
Much of my corp has gone strangely silent from the corp forum since the patch became available. I would have expected oogles of screenshots and, golly-gee-look-at-me threads by now.
I wonder how many of my friends are kicking their PC's as I write this.
Nice prank CCP. ;)
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Mallikan
Gallente
Spartan Hoplites
Rare Faction
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:47:00 -
[113]
Don't know if someone posted this yet or not and don't care, here was my (bootable) fix.
start, control panel, system, advanced, startup and recovery, edit, save as all files 'boot.ini' under your boot drive (C:\ for me and most of you).
Rebooted and it's golden. However, this will only work if you haven't rebooted already. If you rebooted.. uh.. you probably won't be able to click the start menu through the command prompt and will have to resort to the repair methods mentioned elsewhere.
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lol.. I messed up.
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Lithalnas
Amarr
Headcrabs
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:47:00 -
[114]
Originally by: Daphne Eveningstar
I do not guarantee this fix for anyone.
If you make a new boot.ini and put this text in
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
Save it, and then run MSConfig from the Run box. Under the Boot.ini tab, click the "check all boot paths" to verify that you should at least be able to boot back up from one viable OS.
Otherwise read the MS technet article someone linked.
This is a pretty big FUBAR really. Bad press inbound.
confirm this has worked for me.
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Digicomm
The Digital Communists
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:47:00 -
[115]
Originally by: Gothikia
Well done ********s!
Hint: I suggest actually paying attention and quit making idiotic mistakes such as the deletion of your customers boot file.
CCP = n00bs
DramaQueen.
What's alittle ini deletion between friends?
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mill veters
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:48:00 -
[116]
well it is named trinity, maby its the machine fighting back (matrix)
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Relain Linday
Amarr
eXceed Inc.
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:48:00 -
[117]
Epic fail for lulz.
Lulz also on a new patch deployed on SiSi 2 hours before TQ DT for Trinity. Don't convince me THAT patch was tested.
Rush is an enemy of perfection, you know.
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Empyre
Domestic Reform
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:48:00 -
[118]
not sure if anyone has suggested this, but you could use EasyBCD to create your own bootloader (or edit the one you have if you run Vista on a partition.
I use it all the time when I install an XP partition as it wipes the loader out every time. Pretty easy to use and you can manipulate the entries around pretty easily, too.
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Garborg
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:49:00 -
[119]
Gah download for premium stopped at 98.9%
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Woodwraith
Prophets Of a Damned Universe
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Posted - 2007.12.06 04:49:00 -
[120]
Turning Hidden Files to 'show all' on my comp is still not showing boot.ini on the root drive, to confirm if yours is intact, open up notepad, File->open "c:\boot.ini" presuming C:\ is your os intall drive, wich it prlby is...
if its there its fine, If not, ive pasted a working example,
this is a two disk system, with a single partition on each disk, and should be trouble free for anyone with that setup.
Quote:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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