[Coco] bad sysgo in nightly download?

[Tim Fadden]

Hi bill,

Right now I am working with 6809.

Thanks for the offer!

I guess I am going to have to get mercurial and all working at some time.

Too  bad all the nitros9 sites aren't a little for straight forward for 
the general user, instead of the programmers. :-)
I mostly brought up the sysgo issue hoping that someone would fix the 
nightly download, or if it is bad, take it off and put a link to a good 
one.

I'm just about ready to go back to stock os9 level 2 and start from 
there. ha ha ha   Speed is not always the best thing, reliability comes 
in there some where.

Thanks again,

Tim

On 1/7/2014 3:07 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> Tim, are you using 6809 or 6309?
> I can send you good current builds
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 4:18 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] bad sysgo in nightly download?
>
>
> The sysgo from the nightly download is 511 bytes.
>
> The reason I say it is bad is because ident say it is bad, and if I use
> a previous sysgo, it works.
>
> This had nothing to do with the hard drive , I was trying to use the /dd.
> Also, all of this is concerning making boot floppy's.
>
> How I caught on was that I was putting it into the os9boot file. When
> booting from that image it failed with out of memory.
>
> After some more studying etc.  I took it out of the os9boot file, and on
> the /dd device.  still no go.  Then I did an ident on it , and ident
> says BAD.
>
> I then did Ident on the files on the nitros9 modules directory and both
> the sysgo_dd and sysgo_h0 came up bad.
>
> I have succsesfully created literally hundreds of boot floppy's through
> the years, so not a complete neophyte.  :-)
>
> This is the output from the sysgo that is on what I download from the
> nightly link.
>
> Header for:  SysGo
> Module size: $01FF    #511
> Module CRC:  $221288 (Bad)
> Hdr parity:  $D4
> Exec. off:   $00F1    #241
> Data Size:   $00FC    #252
> Edition:     $05      #5
> Ty/La At/Rv: $11 $83
> Prog mod, 6809 obj, re-en, R/O
>
> Notice that it says (Bad).
>
> If the nightly link on the sourceforge page is not a good image, where
> is the best latest image?
>
>
> I may still not have everything correct,  but I can only fix one thing
> at a time as I figure it out.
> This is a problem.  Whether it is my overall problem is of no importance.
> Ident should run clean on the sysgo modules.  After that is sorted out,
> then I can move on.
> Seeing I don't have a way to compile the source code, I am at a dead end.
> By the way. using a known good sysgo module from a previous version works.
>
> I brought this
>
> Ain't computers fun!
> Tim
>
> p.s. when the sysgo issue is solved, I will start with the
> superdriver/tc3 issue.  That does not work with the the nightly download
> either.  Mark is also having problems with it, so it is not just me
> doing something wrong.
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