Backup your boot.ini before installing the premium content

[Helado]

The premium installer will remove your c:\boot.ini

Repair or Replace Boot.ini - How To Repair or Replace Boot.ini in Windows XP - Boot.ini

May or may not happen, but people are freaking out, so safe than sorry.

edit:
Windows Support: How to edit the Boot.ini file in Windows XP

Also check c:\windows\pss folder for a backup also

 

[ViRGE]

Silly XP users. Vista doesn't have this problem.

 

[pyrot3chnic]

I don't see a boot.ini in C: ... there's a main.ini.

Problem?

 

[Helado]

It's hidden by default.

If you do start->run "c:\boot.ini" and you get a file with stuff you're ok.

 

[pyrot3chnic]

Windows cannot find 'c:\boot.ini'

Wonderful.. anyway you can fix this without the use of the XP CD?

 

[Helado]

How to edit the Boot.ini file in Windows XP

This should help. Has a sample and some info on how to check it w/out rebooting.

 

[pyrot3chnic]

I found a backup of it in the C:\WINDOWS\pss folder, but what that site describes works as well. I'm just glad I didn't restart before seeing this thread.. no XP CD atm.

 

[Caswell]

Someone punch these retards in the FACE. Fucking idots.

How the fuck do you miss this. You never name things the same as major Windows files.

 

[NAT Mav]

What in the fuckity fuck?

 

[NAT Mav]

On the other hand, it didn't touch mine?

 

[washington_irving]

I found a backup of it in the C:\WINDOWS\pss folder, but what that site describes works as well. I'm just glad I didn't restart before seeing this thread.. no XP CD atm.

same thing.

 

[travelyan]

in vista... updated... each time i try t load it now it crashes at the splash screen.

i was able to patch and can still log in with the mac client but it tells me my system cannot handle the premium graphics. (macbook pro)

so, fuck

 

[Vlasic]

hahahahahahahaha

I KNEW this patch was going to do something seriously FUCKED UP.

FUCK all you naysayers.

 

[ViRGE]

hahahahahahahaha

I KNEW this patch was going to do something seriously FUCKED UP.

FUCK all you naysayers.

I must admit, this is the biggest fuck up on a patch yet. It beats even the RMR disaster.

 

[NAT Mav]

Yeah GJ CCP for naming one of their files the same as a critical Windows system file. But, if people weren't noobs and didn't install games on their system partition, this wouldn't have happened.

 

[FalseMyrmidon]

how the fuck did that get through QA?

 

[Brontez]

LMAO at the first post in the emergency thread.

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Originally by: Kittamaru
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JUST AN UPDATE:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is apparently IMMUNE to this bug... I have tested this, so have my corpmates. If you have Win XP SP 2 (and you SHOULD) you should be just fine!



They already erased it but basically he was trying to convince XP SP2 users (basically everyone on XP) that they were safe and could reboot.

I wonder how many people rebooted before the moderators cought it

Cockfaggot should get bant.


This is why I wait 48 hours to patch anything, fyi.

 

[Teflonatron]

My boot.ini was toasted. I used Helado's link to recreate it, but I haven't tried to reboot yet....(I'm at work and did this via VNC, so I don't want to risk a reboot until I'm at home... )

 

[Gurthang]

Glad I did fresh installs on both my systems. Though, I have screwed up a boot.ini file on my own before and fixed it pretty quickly.

 

[ViRGE]

LMAO at the first post in the emergency thread.

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Originally by: Kittamaru
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JUST AN UPDATE:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is apparently IMMUNE to this bug... I have tested this, so have my corpmates. If you have Win XP SP 2 (and you SHOULD) you should be just fine!



They already erased it but basically he was trying to convince XP SP2 users (basically everyone on XP) that they were safe and could reboot.

I wonder how many people rebooted before the moderators cought it

Cockfaggot should get bant.


This is why I wait 48 hours to patch anything, fyi.

Actually he's kind of right. The SP2 bootloader will immediately try to boot the first partition of the first disk when it can't find boot.ini. For most people this will boot Windows.