Ian kindly sent me a copy of his drive image. It's incomplete - /bin and /dev are missing.
I've managed to replace these with copies from my own incomplete backup of 1.13 from after the Scottish Drive died, and install onto an emulated st506 image.
It now gets as far as this:
Although it appears to have hung, the keyboard still sticks stuff on the screen (although the machine doesn't respond to anything you type), Pause brings up the session swapper and you can select TTYV0 and TTYV1 and again whatever you type just appears on the screen. F3 or Print will bring up the Terminal Set-Up screen (even the bell test works).
So, it's tantalisingly close. Reading Granada MicroCare's notes, it seems to have everything present to successfully perform at least a minimal boot, but doesn't finish.
I then accidentally deleted /dev from my 1.21 image, didn't notice, and rebooted. 1.21 then behaves in exactly the same way. After restoring /dev, the next reboot gave the "init died: no console" error.
So, it would seem that the new build can't access the special files in /dev, for some unfathomable reason. I've transferred them over from both my own backup and 1.21, via the prescribed ls -A1 | cpio -pdvm method. Neither works.
I've also tried rebuilding a new set from the MAKEDEV in my 1.13 backup, and transferring that - that doesn't work either.
I've tried using mknod to recreate /dev/console - failure.
Any suggestions what's happening, or what to do about it?
I've managed to replace these with copies from my own incomplete backup of 1.13 from after the Scottish Drive died, and install onto an emulated st506 image.
It now gets as far as this:
Although it appears to have hung, the keyboard still sticks stuff on the screen (although the machine doesn't respond to anything you type), Pause brings up the session swapper and you can select TTYV0 and TTYV1 and again whatever you type just appears on the screen. F3 or Print will bring up the Terminal Set-Up screen (even the bell test works).
So, it's tantalisingly close. Reading Granada MicroCare's notes, it seems to have everything present to successfully perform at least a minimal boot, but doesn't finish.
I then accidentally deleted /dev from my 1.21 image, didn't notice, and rebooted. 1.21 then behaves in exactly the same way. After restoring /dev, the next reboot gave the "init died: no console" error.
So, it would seem that the new build can't access the special files in /dev, for some unfathomable reason. I've transferred them over from both my own backup and 1.21, via the prescribed ls -A1 | cpio -pdvm method. Neither works.
I've also tried rebuilding a new set from the MAKEDEV in my 1.13 backup, and transferring that - that doesn't work either.
I've tried using mknod to recreate /dev/console - failure.
Any suggestions what's happening, or what to do about it?
Statistics: Posted by Boydie — Sun Mar 23, 2025 2:50 pm