Subject: Re: Abnormal mouse behavior on MAXINE again
To: Brighten Godfrey <godfreyb@bigw.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/28/1998 15:15:13
On Oct 28,  3:15pm, Brighten Godfrey wrote:
> Michael Hitch emailed me his patch for dtop.c when we were last discussing
> the mouse problems on MAXINE. I had planned to play around with them right
> away, but being a college freshman here at Carnegie Mellon, my time is
> limited. ;-)  I did rebuild the kernel with the patch and it compiled
> fine, but it wouldn't boot off the new kernel (it said "bad magic" at the
> PROM).  I haven't really had time since then to play around with it, so my
> lack of immediate success does not mean that the solution doesn't work. 

  I'll bet you copied "netbsd" as the new kernel, instead of "netbsd.aout".
The pmax bootstrap currently only recognizes the .aout format.

Michael

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA