SFS is read-only under OS4 Classic

[Matt_H]

Here's a weird one:

I booted up my OS4.1FE partition on my 4000T to discover that all of my SFS partitions (the drive has around 7 SFS partitions and 1 FFS Intl) were set to read-only, including the OS4 partition itself. Admittedly, it's been a while since I booted OS4 on this machine but I'm pretty sure SFS was operating normally the last time I did. I don't think I've changed anything in hardware or software since then. SFS 1.279 (68K) is in the RDB. The partitions all work correctly (read/write) when I boot into OS3.9. The only way I was able to get the OS4 partition usable from OS4 again was to reformat it as FFS DOS\07 and reinstall.

Any ideas as to what might have happened?

[Matt_H]

*Bump*

Anyone?

[Matt_H]

If it worked under OS3.9 then perhaps your problem was OS4 and the re-install fixed that. After re-installing OS4 with FFS could you then read the remaining SFS partitions?

Nope. The only fully usable partitions under OS4 continue to be the OS4 DOS\07 partition and a DOS\03 partition. Reinstall made no difference. :\

[Matt_H]

@ Bennymee

I'm not a member there, hence why I'm raising the question with the fine folks here

@ smf

Lock command was the first thing I tried. No luck

@ paul1981

I reverted to 1.277 with the same result, but I'm not sure it matters because OS4 loads 1.290 (I think) as a kickstart module. That's what the system reports if I do a 'version dh3:' in the shell.

[Matt_H]

@ TribbleSmasher

Good idea, but I just booted OS4 with no startup-sequence and the Info command still reports SFS partitions as read-only.

@ Niels

I tried kickstart modules of 1.279 and 1.286 - still no luck.




Does the OS4 installer do anything special apart from copy files and set the specified preferences? I ask because my re-install attempt crashed partway through and I ended up copying the rest of the files by hand. Is there some sneaky script that tells the system it's "ready"? I found the one for the SObjs: softlinks, but is there something that's part of the install script that my non-Python-knowing eyes can't see?