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EVE Online: About the boot.ini issue (the fallout)
- DanielBMarkham 19y agoI must have missed the part where he explained why they didn't take ten minutes, make a new windows VM and try out the setup. Heck, they could have made it part of the build. Setup programs have to be tested. Your solution is no good unless it installs. I must be mising something -- I read the whole article and am still left wondering how they let something like this happen.
- dougp 19y agoAs I understand it the patch would install just fine and was perfectly playable. Until the user restarted the computer and then windows would not boot. So thats a little bit harder to catch.
- megamark16 19y agoActually, if I read correctly the issue was that if the boot.ini file is stored on the first partition of a hard drive it will be automatically restored at startup without any indication of a problem to the end user, which was the case for their test environments. Their tests have been since been broadened. I have to say, props to them for standing up and taking responsibility, integrity means a lot in a world with very little of it left. Thanks Mark
- rms 19y agoI wonder what less technically inclined users are doing without their boot.ini's right about now.