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- From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
- Subject: Alien invasion????
- Message-ID: <1992Jul17.232645.2785@odin.diku.dk>
- Sender: joker@freja.diku.dk
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 23:26:45 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 59
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- "What the hell was THAT???" I asked myself, when I booted my OS/2 system
- this morning - explanation follows:
-
- When I booted the system OS/2 started to boot as usually, but when I should
- open the WPS, it just exploded the frame and the second after it imploded
- it again, after which it just started the Pulse (which I have in the
- Startup folder) and showed the tasklist with nothing else than pulse in it!
-
- I tried to close Pulse and now there was nothing but the task list there.
- I tried hitting Ctrl-Esc, since my system has hung after boot before, but
- that usually helped - well the task list came back, but thats all.
-
- Since I'm about a 100 miles away from my manual and couldn't remember how
- to create new .INI files, I was fucked...
-
- "Thank God for tape-backup's" I thought! But I'm using a PM based backup,
- so in order to get this to work I had to reinstall OS/2 from the original
- disks which I have brought with me (I know, next time I'll remember the
- manuals too). So I did this...
-
- After that I wanted to restore, but since the tape is PM based it does NOT
- back up the EA-file, and cannot (at restore) restore the files in use by
- the OS/2 system, so I freed up another partition and restored the entire
- OS/2 disk to the E: drive. Then I booted DOS and XCOPY'ed the files from
- E: in the naive hope, that this would restore the WPS-settings as well
- as my CONFIG.SYS and (DOS) AUTOEXEC.
-
- So again, I booted OS/2. The CONFIG worked fine, and all the folders were
- back in the WPS, but several had lost their original names and were now
- using the disk names and further more a lot had lost their original icons,
- including the OS/2 System folder and others. "Well, this is not so bad!"
- I thought, I can just restall the icons and I'm back in business. How
- naive can you possibly be??? I now wanted to see if the system was intact
- as far as functionality is concerned - I discovered that I can now ONLY
- run OS/2 programs... DOS and WIN-OS2 sessions just hangs the system...
-
- Further more when I click the mouse in the WPS to shut down the system,
- this menu is totally GONE, maybe it was obducted by the aliens that
- smashed my system???
-
- After this long and tedious work I still have a crippled system and
- now the question is "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY SYSTEM" and how
- do I get it back?????
-
- The only thing I know for sure to work is restoring the system
- once again, and begin building the WPS as I want it again.
-
- Lesson to all you boys and girls: DO NOT back the OS/2 system up from within
- the system if you can avoid it - in the future I will back the OS/2 system
- itself up from DOS - that way I should be able to make a 100% perfect copy...
-
- Well, another sleepless night ahead, as I will go fight the aliens that
- have invaded my system ;-)
-
- Christian
- --
- M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
- student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
- "Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
-