Lewis_P@cc.curtin.edu.au (Peter Lewis) (02/20/91)
Hi All, Has anyone got rmaker for MacMINIX to work? I tried to build the macboot appliaction, and had no trouble compiling the kernel,fs,mm,init, but when rmaker ran, it gave me an out of memory error. I tried chmeming it, but it kept giving me the out of mem error until I chmemed it above 300K, at which point it started crashing into macsbug with an illegal instruction trap. Is there a maximum on the value you can chmem? I have a 4MB Mac Plus, in mono-finder (has anyone got MacMINIX to work with Multi-Finder (its version 1.5 BTW)? Mine crashes immidiately if MF is enabled), and MINIX says I have 3 Meg available. I chmemed rmaker up to 1.5M, to no avail. I had a look at the documentation (read: source code) for rmaker, and it looks like it parses the whole file and then creates the resources. I tried using "macwrite NEWmacboot.kernel <kernel", but it stopped after about 50 bytes (on a 255 byte, is that treated as an EOF char?). Anyone have any ideas? suggestions? Otherwise I'll have to delve deep into rmaker and see if I can figure out what it does (doesn't?), TIA, Peter. -- Disclaimer:Curtin & I have an agreement:Neither of us listen to either of us. *-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------* Internet: Lewis_P@cc.curtin.edu.au I Peter Lewis Bitnet: Lewis_P%cc.curtin.edu.au@cunyvm.bitnet I NCRPDA, Curtin University UUCP: uunet!munnari.oz!cc.curtin.edu.au!Lewis_P I GPO Box U1987 AppleLink: Guy Kawasaki for Apple President! I Perth, WA, 6001, AUSTRALIA
twosheds@pancake.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) (02/21/91)
I haven't tried rebuilding so I don't know about any Rmaker problems. However, I have had no trouble running MacMinix 1.5 under MulFinder6.0. I did have trouble running it under MultiFinder6.1b9. If that's what you're doing, you might want to fall-back. Incidentally, MacMinix runs quite nicely under 7.0b1. If you have yet to experience 7.0... Let me tell you, it's GRRRRREAT! _______________________________________________________________________ | __ ______ _________ J.C. Vollmer _________ ______ __ | | __ | | _________ Macintosh virtuoso _________ | | | __ | | __ | | _________ twosheds@cray.com _________ |___| | __ | | __ |______| _________ It is never as it seems! _________ |______| __ | |_______________________________________________________________________|
Chris.Steketee@levels.sait.edu.au (02/23/91)
In article <7152.27c259f8@cc.curtin.edu.au>, Lewis_P@cc.curtin.edu.au (Peter Lewis) writes: > Hi All, > Has anyone got rmaker for MacMINIX to work? I tried to build the > macboot appliaction, and had no trouble compiling the kernel,fs,mm,init, > but when rmaker ran, it gave me an out of memory error. I tried chmeming > it, but it kept giving me the out of mem error until I chmemed it above > 300K, at which point it started crashing into macsbug with an illegal > ... Well it wouldn't work for me at 200K and did at 1000K. I've not tried to see what the minimum workable value is. I have 5 MB of memory, have set the heap size to 500KB, and run under Finder, since I could never get Macminix to stay up very long under Multifinder. Hope this helps, Chris