[Coco] bad sysgo in nightly download?

Tue Jan 7 19:19:48 EST 2014

On Tuesday 07 January 2014 19:03:44 Tim Fadden did opine:

> Hi bill,
> 
> Right now I am working with 6809.
> 
Or you could pull from my month old copy of the repo, dsk's already built.  
Follow the nitros9 link to /level2/coco3, and you will find the .dsk's 
there.

> Thanks for the offer!
> 
> I guess I am going to have to get mercurial and all working at some
> time.
> 
That can be a puzzle, hg's docs have a very high self-contained vacuum.  I 
cheated, I made pulling a current copy of lwtools, toolshed, and nitros9 
into bash script.  But then I'm on linux, no windows machines on the 
premises.

Provided the 3 repo's are in build able condition, and from what you say 
nitros9 is not ATM, its about 10 minutes to rename what I have out of the 
way, pull and build each of the 3 projects needed to build nitros9.  And 
its just a few lines of bash script.

> 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.

You've forgotten just how much of a frazzled person looks back at you from 
the mirror from the first time you did that 25+ years ago. :)

Absolutely on the reliability, which is why I want to see it build clean, 
and Just Work before any more new bells and whistles are added.

> 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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