riddle@emory.uucp (Larry Riddle) (10/27/88)
Yesterday I installed the new system 6.0.2 on my MacII machine. Besides using this under the Mac OS, I also have A/UX on the hard disk. After the installation, I discovered I could not boot A/UX. The message I got was ***** Initialization HALT Application base too high (=0x326ac) <- this number would vary under different attempts The shell needs to run in a particular area of memory. Either you are trying to run under a memory sharing system or the system heap is too big IN-1 ***** I was not running multifinder, so the memory sharing system should not have been the problem. Suspecting that the number of inits I was running might be the problem, I removed almost everything from the system file and started putting the inits back in one at a time. WIth a barebone system file there was no problem booting A/UX. The next thing I discovered was that without Quickeys, I could boot A/UX, but with Quickeys I could not. Same thing with Suitcase II. At this point I stopped experimenting. NOTE: I am NOT claiming that Quickeys and Suitcase II were responsible in any way, only that I did have problems booting with them loaded. Since I like using Quickeys and Suitcase very much when running the Mac OS, I finally decided to put back my old copies of the system and finder (system 4.2) Once I did this, I could run all my inits and also boot A/UX. So the question is...what might be an explanation for this behavior? Does it have anything to do with system 6.0.2? I must confess that I did not have the time to really do a lot of investigating and try all different combinations of inits, cdevs, etc. to see how big the system heap was getting. Basic setup: Mac II 80 Meg hard disk drive with A/UX 5 megs memory Originally system 4.2, then system 6.0.2 (using the installer program) Appleshare 2.0.1 installed (at the same time as 6.0.2) A curious Mac, A/UX user, trying to have the best (?) of both worlds. -- Larry Riddle | riddle@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED Emory University | {decvax,gatech}!emory!riddle UUCP Dept of Math and CS | riddle@emory NON-DOMAIN BITNET Atlanta, GA 30322 | (404) 727-7922 AT&T