[Coco] bad sysgo in nightly download?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 January 2014 16:38:17 Tim Fadden did opine:

> On 1/7/2014 12:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 January 2014 14:39:03 Tim Fadden did opine:
> >> Hi gang,
> >> 
> >> I downloaded the nightly build 2 days ago, and have been trying to
> >> build custom boot floppy's  and dw images, without success.
> >> 
> >> I have narrowed it down that the files sysgo_dd and sysgo_h0 in the
> >> nitros9 directory path are both bad, and much larger than working
> >> sysgo's.
> >> 
> >> I have no way of compiling these.
> >> 
> >> Is it acceptable to use sysgo's from prior nitros images that are
> >> known good?  I'm going to try, and expect it should work but.......
> > 
> > Sysgo_dd is 483 bytes as built here, how big is yours?
> > 
> > And size shouldn't be an issue since its a transient program that is
> > executed once at bootup, and for size reasons, probably needn't be
> > taking up room in the OS9Boot file, or in precious system ram.  It
> > should load, execute, and go away.
> > 
> > I would much rather believe that its failure is a bad descriptor for
> > /h0 or /dd as the case might be. That would prevent its being found.
> > 
> > Do you actually have your hard drive formatted and loaded with nitros9
> > already?
> > 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Tim
> >> 
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> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> Gene,
> 
> 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.

Humm, have you built that but used a known good descriptor?

Cheers, Gene
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