| From: | Paul Hill |
| Date: | 19 Oct 2000 at 10:00:41 |
| Subject: | Re: Dauber's PPC hangups... |
Neil said:
> Dauber said,
>
> > During the startup-sequence, the Amiga would crash with version 44
of
> > 68060.library installed....[I just copy the *.library files over to
the
> > LIBS: directory, right? There was no documentation in the archive!]
>
> Wrong :( Get the full PPC update archive from DCE's site, or an AACD.
> That has full instructions for installing the libraries, which
involves
> more than copying.
>
> > I've found that with the "newer" 68060.library, the Amiga crashes
during
> > this part of startup-sequence: [BTW -- the "echo" commands are for
> > debugging purposes; I put those in when I was getting the crashes...
]
>
> It's easier to add "set echo on" as the first line of startup-
sequence.
>
> BTW Does anyone know if it's [possible to redirect the output of this
to
> the serial port, to avoid the problems caused by the Workbench screen
> opening too early?
Not AFAIK but it's a bloody good idea. I've lost count the number of
times
I've had to fix my Amiga 'blind' because I put something in the
startup-sequence that stopped cybergraphics from loading.
I'll see if I can throw something together. I imagine patching the
console.device would do the trick...
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