Re: Debugging an (unsuccessful) prodos boot

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Feb 9, 4:48 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2:36 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 9, 3:08 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm in the midst of debugging a very hard problem.   Trying to
> > > determine why Prodos is unwilling to start.  It relocates, then reads
> > > the root volume.  No other MLI calls are made, and it spits out a
> > > relocation error.
>
> > I usually get that error when I don't have 64k of memory for ProDOS to
> > find. :-)  I'm assuming this volume boots fine with other emulators?
>
> Nope.  I'm pretty sure it wouldn't boot elsewhere -- since the volume
> is being dynamically generated it is rather hard to prove that
> assertion though.  You bring up a good point -- perhaps I could render
> the virtual image into a file and try elsewhere if I cannot pinpoint
> the issue -- though I've booted prodos on the emulator in disk form
> before.

Well, right - see if CiderPress can make heads or tails of it. :-)
You are doing this with a copy of Worth and Lechner at your side,
right?  Along with their annotated disassembly of ProDOS in the Beyond
ProDOS supplements?  Right?  ;-)