Boing Bag Boom!?

[adolescent]

I got brave last week and updated my A1200 OS3.9 BB1 to BoingBag 2 and now it won't boot.  It gets through the startup-sequence and user-startup but then just hangs at the loadwb (no errors, guru, etc.).  Any ideas of where to look first?  Are the files that BB2 replaces archived anywhere that I can copy them back?  

System: A1200, Blizzard 060/50+SCSI, 2M CHIP, 128M FAST, 20GB IDE HD.

[MaDDuck]

Good luck!
I did the same thing on my A4000 (16MB, stock 040, scanmagic) and I can't find any changes at all.
At least it did 'something' on yours.
I'll be following this thread very closely!!

[Crusher]

I hope you didn´t unpack BB2 with Unarc in BB1? IIRC there is a bug in BB1-unarc, use the good old LHA.

[mikeymike]

Crusher wrote:
I hope you didn´t unpack BB2 with Unarc in BB1? IIRC there is a bug in BB1-unarc, use the good old LHA.

There's something sadly ironic about that, but I'm too busy eating Smarties and thinking about playing some more Counter-Strike to bother working it out.

[sundown]

@adolescent

I had a similar problem as you, but I got a guru at
setpatch. I had to replaced c:setpatch &
devs:amigaos rom update with the ones in BB1 to get it
working. I know I have something from 3.1 that's causing
the problem, but I have no idea what it is yet. I know
this because if I do a fresh install of OS3.9 & both BBs,
I can boot with no problems.

Just re-install BB1 & you should be back to where you started, or you could try replacing those 2 files
with the ones in BB1 to see if that works.

[Ilwrath]

Yeah, I had tons of problems with the OS3.9 BB2 setpatch on my A4000, as well.  Is it just me, or did the BoingBags introduce more problems than they solved?

anyhow, I used a
c:setpatch SKIPROMUPDATES
in my startup-sequence, and that got my 4000 a little happier.

[adolescent]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

@Sundown

That is my plan, but I need WB to do it.  Unless someone knows the secret password to unpack the update zipfile.  

Also, I installed this system directly from the OS3.9 CD a while back, so there shouldn't be anything "old" on it.

@Crusher

No, I used LZX to unpack it.

@Ilwrath

I'll give the SKIPROMUPDATES a try tonight.

[QuikSanz]

Hi,

Yeh it's that update alright. Messed up my graphics and all kinds of stuff. Something in the Exec update if I remember right.

Chris

[adolescent]

@All

Well, after toying with it for a week, I decided to just re-install OS3.9 and BB1.  Using my premade emergency disk I got everything reinstalled.  The only casualty I've found so far is MUI needed to be reinstalled.  Everything else "seems" to be functioning...

[justthatgood]

Ack, that just great.  I guess I'm going to be able to experience that when I get to put 3.9 on my A4000 (can't right now, because as a fool I formatted the drive, and came to find  out my emergency disk didn't work and my workbench disk is giving out errors)

Would I really need those Boing Bags ?

[brownie]

If I remember correctly, cybergraphics had a problem
with the exec version number, and would not work correctly.

skipromupdates "exec.library" (from memory, I am at work)
should fix it if you are using cybergrapics.

justthatgood wrote:
Ack, that just great.  I guess I'm going to be able to experience that when I get to put 3.9 on my A4000 (can't right now, because as a fool I formatted the drive, and came to find  out my emergency disk didn't work and my workbench disk is giving out errors)

Would I really need those Boing Bags ?

[Crusher]

I haven´t had any problem in installing BB1 or BB2 on any of  my computers or any of my friends and I haven´t used the emergencydisk on any of my installations. Maybe it has to do with that I have installed WB3.1 first and then 3.9 on that and then BB1 and directly, without reset, BB2 over that. I used both BB´s from Haage&Partner and not the one from Amiga. Don´t know if they are different but just maybe they are.  :-)