How to restore system after installing problematic driver
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 9:15 pm
My question to those testers with more experience is: Is there a way to restore a broken configuration without having to re-install ReactOS from scratch?
Background:
Testing drivers on real hardware is a very time consuming thing, because if something fails I cannot just revert to an earlier VM state. And things fail quite often, resulting in ReactOS not booting any more, showing BSOD and similar. Up to now I found no way except re-installing ReactOS from scratch. (Currently with CORE-15874 open every re-install requires me to take out the HDD and replace two files in order to get it booting at all, making this process even more frustrating.)
There is a "last known good configuration" option in the ReactOS F8 boot menu, but this does not seem to do what it claims to do. What's the state of this function in 0.4.12?
Any help is appreciated.
Matthias Basler
Background:
Testing drivers on real hardware is a very time consuming thing, because if something fails I cannot just revert to an earlier VM state. And things fail quite often, resulting in ReactOS not booting any more, showing BSOD and similar. Up to now I found no way except re-installing ReactOS from scratch. (Currently with CORE-15874 open every re-install requires me to take out the HDD and replace two files in order to get it booting at all, making this process even more frustrating.)
There is a "last known good configuration" option in the ReactOS F8 boot menu, but this does not seem to do what it claims to do. What's the state of this function in 0.4.12?
Any help is appreciated.
Matthias Basler