Subject: Re: trouble booting SE/30 (2)
To: Allan M Lee <allanlee@viola.com>
From: Mark Andres <mark@ratbert.aisol.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/18/1997 18:02:49
Hi,

Suddenly, it becomes very clear.

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Allan M Lee wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Machine: SE/30, 5 megs RAM, running System 7.5.3
> 
> Hard drive: 233 meg (with 4 partitions: A/UX-125 meg, swap-20 meg,
> Eschatology 1-3 meg, Mac-85 meg according to APS)
> 
> Extensions and control panels: removed from folders except Mode32 and
> Monitors and Memory (Monitors: in color mode, Memory: 32 bit addressing
> on, Virtual Memory on) 

Here are your problems.  1) Virtual Memory must be OFF.  That is probably
why it is freezing.  2) Set Monitors to b/w mode.

That should do it for you.

Mark
 
> What I did:
> 
> After reading the two responses, I used APS 2.7.4 to reformat the hard
> drive, partition (A/UX 3.0 partition) using defaults, formatted the A/UX
> partition with Mkfs, installed all 8 sets of compressed binary, in
> alphabetical order (the binary was downloaded using Fetch 3.0, binary mode
> specified), built devices, then booted. 
> 
> The result is basically the same: 
> 
> Booting...MID_M68K executable: entry 0x3356.
> 770544+57724+99004+45732+48403
>   Bye-bye...
> 	So I sez to him...  The real way
> 	that it should be done is to...
> 
> and it froze.
> 
> I tried again, this time turned off the SyQuest EZ Drive before booting
> and got the error message I got in the first post.
> 
> EZ Drive already off, restarted, booted with the same result shown above. 
> 
> I think I followed the installation process exactly...What went wrong? 
> 
> Allan
> 
> 

Mark Andres   E-mail: mark@ratbert.aisol.net
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