On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Scott Lipcon wrote:

> 	Ok... I found one problem... when I formatted the syquest disk 
> using Mkfs, I forgot to make the changes documented in the syquest 
> HOWTO... I reformatted it, and I tried to boot from a Mac side kernel 
> (the special LCIII kernel 11/28) and it didn't get any farther... this 
> time, I wrote down the error though:  It malloced the RAM, set a lot of 
> environment variables, and said:
> 
> 
> Set _mac68k_vrsrc_rec to {0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 }.
> 
> and hung...  Again, it never got out of the booter.  There was a similar 
> Set _Mac68k thing above this one, but this is the one that crashes.  
> 
> >
> > Try disabling the options in the booter about video interrupts, etc.
> >
> 
> 	They are disabled... I'm booting with Extra debugging info ON, 
> Single User mode ON, Dont bug me about untested machine ON, and 
> everything else is OFF.

In that cae, try enabling it.  (Note that the video option is enabled 
when the checkbox is disabled and vice-versa.)  While you're at it, make 
sure you're set for black & white, grays, no virtual memory, no 
extensions.

> 
> The only thing that I could think of is that partition name section in 
> the booter dialog... it is set to MacBSD or some such default... should I 
> change it to "AUX Root&Usr slice 0"?

That _should_ only be necessary if you have more than one root partition 
on your drive.

> What is the latest version of Mkfs?  I have a really old one without a 
> version number.  Is 1.0 the latest Install utility?  

Sorry.  That's the latest version of each, afaik.  There are lots of us 
with copies of the source code on the Install, poking around with it.  If 
you want, you can grab the source for Install.

	I believe that the addition of about three or four lines of code
will make selection of a source file for cpin possible.  Anybody know for 
sure how the interface section works -- specifically, is the gets(char) 
command supported?  Here's another one.  Anybody know where the code is for 
SFGetFile, or is that just a standard Mac file dialog?  If it's a 
standard MacOS thing, is there another one for selecting a directory?  
Anybody have a copy of the source for the unix rm command to steal 
such niceties as rm * from?

	BTW, where is the source code for mkfs?  Just curious.

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