Re: RELOCATION/ CONFIGURATION ERRO

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Rubywand wrote:
> 
> Morlan writes ...
> >
> > Hello...
> >
> > I have an Apple ][+ with 48K RAM, I put into the disk drive the
> > A2 central's System Utilities 3.2 (5.25" disk).
> >
> > When I switch on it tells me in the screen:
> > " RELOCATION/  CONFIGURATION ERRO ".
> >
> > I have read the Manual Reference and I don't find anything.
> >
 ....

> 
>      The reason you get a relocation error on a 48k II+ is that, when
> a typical ProDOS diskette is booted, ProDOS likes to move stuff-- think
> it's mainly BASIC system-- into Language Card memory. Since you do not
> have a Language Card, the stuff cannot be moved there.
>
 ....

Correction: The stuff ProDOS wants to relocate to the Language Card RAM area is
ProDOS itself. (BASIC.SYSTEM would go into the upper part of regular RAM
memory.)

As Steve points out, the "RELOCATION/ CONFIGURATION ERROR" message is included
in ProDOS-- i.e. in the file "PRODOS". ProDOS is first loaded into regular
memory and code which relocates ProDOS to the Language Card is executed. If the
relocation routine finds out that it can not move ProDOS into the Language Card
RAM area, it displays the special error message. 


Rubywand