dmac@athena.mit.edu (David S. McCormick) (06/20/91)
This morning I tried booting A/UX from Mac IIfx with sys 6.0.7 and it froze. This has happened before, so I made sure to do the standard recovery by first minimizing the number of INIT's loading and by putting the heap back to the minimal amount (default plus 80k). Then I invoked fsck -p /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 and another time autorecovery after cancelling the A/UX Startup. Both fsck and autorecovery told me that the file system was dirty and modified. But when I tried to boot subsequently, the startup died about 1/8 to 1/5 of the way done with a "Unexpectedly quit. System Error 3", the dreaded "Illegal instruction" Dire Straits error. I allowed TMON to load after resetting, and when the same error was encountered, the illegal instruction was at 40800000 in an assembly routine called 'MYROM'. Subsequently TMON froze up with a "Nasty Exception" message; in the Finder the machine would freeze when I put the cursor over the Apple Menu. I have been able to recover from these errors in the past via fsck and autorecovery. Can anyone help? Thanks, in advance, Gurus and neo-Gurus. David S. McCormick MIT-EAPS Geology Cambridge, MA 02139 dmac@athena.mit.edu 617-253-9852