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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