[Oberon] Re. installing BB

Thomas Frey thomas.frey at alumni.ethz.ch
Thu Dec 2 17:50:55 CET 2004


This message notifies you about an invalid VESA Init string.
What Init= value are you using ?
You can try booting with the shift key pressed (to get to the boot 
config) Then type the two lines :

Init=117
c

If it works you can try

Init=11A
c


--Thomas


On 03.12.2004 01:38, shark at gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:

> Jack, Chris, Thomas and others,
> 
> pe> Does [OBERON] indicate ... an Oberon boot loader ...
> 
> Perusing the boot loaders from "Oberon / PC Native 
> 05.01.2003" and from "BB current" with Hex.Open 
> answers this immediately.
> 
> The Oberon / PC Native loader begins thus.
> 
> .)éOBERON ...
> 
> The "BB current" loader begins thus.
> 
> .'éOBERON ...
> 
> Near the end of the "BB current" loader is this string.
> 
> Invalid Init
> 
> "Invalid" is not present in the Oberon loader.
> 
> So now I am convinced that the intended loader 
> was installed.
> 
> cg> * the bootloader for BB is very similar to that of n-o.
> 
> Too similar!  Thomas, is this intentional?  
> I expected the BB loader to report "BB loading" 
> or "AOS loading"; not "Oberon loading".
> 
> jj> ... bad configuration parameter, ... partition ...
> cg> * The IDE/root would be known as 'invalid' very early.
> 
> Seems promising.
> 
> Thanks!      ... Peter E.
> 
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