[Coco] bad sysgo in nightly download?

[Tormod Volden]

I believe this is a bug in lwasm:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/69669

Tormod


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> Bill Pierce
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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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