Re: HELP!! GS/OS 6.0.1 failure!

[TWS <adoyson@nccn.net>]

:-)

I think its funny that your system 6 crashed, because mine just did the same
thing!

Luckily, I was able to find a system 5 disk, and I had a backup of sys6 on my
hard drive.  I've had sys 6 go bad on me a couple of times, so now I always
keep a backup around.  You should do the same!  Copy the SYSTEM folder when
you've got a good, working system, with all the extras/drivers/cdevs/Ndas you
want.

Then, when it bombs all of a sudden for no reason, you an back it up.  When my
System breaks, it is usually because I've played with something I shouldn't
have.

If you do have to re-install, take a look in the popular apple II and Apple
IIgs archives.  There's plenty of patches/programs there, I bet you can find
what you lost.  A few months ago on Delphi, there was a discussion about
System patches.  Maybe you could find the patches there too.

Sandy

Dave Althoff wrote:

> ARGHS!!
>
> Last night before I went to bed, I quit AnsiTERM 2.12, and shut off my
> monitor before the Finder came back up.
>
> This morning when I got up, instead of the familiar Finder, I had an error
> message about an infinite loop while walking the icon list.
>
> I restarted.  The system crashed during startup with a GS/OS error $47 or
> something like that.
>
> I restarted, this time holding <SHIFT>.  The system appeared to hang.
>
> I don't remember what all else I did, but as it now stands, when I try to
> boot, I get this GS/OS system error, and when I try to shift-boot, I get a
> message that the Finder requires GS/OS 6.0.1 and 300k of memory (which I
> have; it's a 5.25Mb system).
>
> I am able to restart using a floppy (actually I am using a Prosel-16 disk)
> and I can see all the hard drive partitions.
>
> Any suggestions?  I am about ready to reinstall GS/OS, but some parts of
> the OS are patched to allow for unusual filenames, and I can't remember
> which files are patched (I think it's just P8 and BASIC.SYSTEM and
> PRO.FST, but I am not certain...)
>
> I'm really really really in trouble here...it's my primary machine...
>
> --Dave Althoff, ][., whose IIgs has never crashed before...
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