[Coco] bad sysgo in nightly download?

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Jan 7 19:39:40 EST 2014


On Tuesday 07 January 2014 19:21:05 Tormod Volden did opine:

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

I did not have to "fix" this in the last pull of lwasm I did, its already 
fixed.  Perhaps your copy is the older one?

Here is that bash script, perhaps it can be adjusted to work on windowz 
too?

#!/bin/bash
# since I'm always forgetting to sudo...
if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]; then
	echo
	echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
	echo "this script needs to be run by root"
	echo
	echo
	exit 1
fi
mv lwtools lwtools-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M) && \
hg clone http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/hg/ lwtools && \
cd lwtools && \
make && \
make install && \
cd .. && \
echo && \
echo && \
echo "lwtools has been built, next is toolshed" && \
echo && \
echo && \
chown -R gene:www-data lwtools # make visible to the web && \
mv toolshed toolshed-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M) && \
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/toolshed/code toolshed && \
cd toolshed && \
make -C build/unix install && \
cd hdbdos && \
make && \
cd ../.. && \
chown -R gene:www-data toolshed # make visible to the web && \
echo && \
echo && \
echo "toolshed has been built and installed, next is nitros9" && \
echo && \
echo && \
mv nitros9 nitros9-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M) && \
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9 && \
cd nitros9 && \
hg update lwtools-port # this step is temporarily needed && \
export NITROS9DIR=$PWD && \
mkdir dsks # this step is temporarily needed && \
make dsk && \
make dskcopy && \
cd .. && \
chown -R gene:www-data nitros9 && \
echo && \
echo && \
echo "this completes the build of lwtools, toolshed, and nitros9"


And thats it. Does it all, and since the "&& \" above, with a newline 
IMMEDIATELY after the backslash, has the effect of making the whole script 
into one command line, an error anyplace will stop it right there with the 
error still on screen, not scrolled off in 300k of additional output so the 
error has to be laboriously searched for in the consoles history 
scrollback, if you even see it go by.  No clue if that is at all valid on a 
winderz boxen.

> 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
> >> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> >> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> >> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> >> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> >> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> >> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> >> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----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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