Subject: Re: Wrong Machine identification
To: Arthur Hoffmann <hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au>
From: Michael L. Hitch <osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 05/17/1994 08:49:41
On May 17, 2:21pm, Arthur Hoffmann wrote:
> >
> > No - the Amiga's shell program "resident" command only deals with AmigaOS
> > commands. The resident modules I am referring to are modules detected at
> > boot time that are resident - most of them will be from the Kickstart ROM,
> > but some may be present from RAM via the KickMemPtr data. I need to know
> > what the exact text for the A3000 Bonus module is (loadbsd is currently
> > looking for "A3000 Bonus" and apparently is not finding it).
> >
> > Michael
> >
> I used artm now to see what you mean, when I use the resident button
> in there I get the following:
>
> Address Type Pri Vers Flags Name
> 00f864f8 unknown 101 37 00000001 A3000 bonus
>
> I don't know if the case matters, but it comes up exactly as above
> (bonus in lower case letters).
Yes, the case does matter - loadbsd is looking for upper case. A quick
fix would be to use a binary file editor on loadbsd and change the string
"A3000 Bonus" to "A3000 bonus". That should fix it. I'll change loadbsd
to check for the uncapitalized string.
> I hope that helps.
Yes, it does.
Michael
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