Re: Help getting metal started

[chiu@ucsee.Berkley.EDU (David Chiu)]

In article <1pukdu$b5c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> teke@poe.ccs.itd.umich.edu (Jeff W. Schroeder) writes:

>Metal startup screen pops up, Hard drive runs and runs, Metal creates 
>subdirectory /workdir on my 1 meg ram card, clock and date come up on
>top menu bar correctly, menu bar flashes a few times, get some wierd
>inversed characters in middle of screen, machine crashes to monitor at
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>at FF6F.  Additionally, if I choose ? instead of restart the menu comes up
>at the bottom of the screen.  If I choose any of the options metal crashes
>back to FF6F and displays the pointers again.  

Sounds like something I ran into myself (and I though I am the only person
who is experiencing the problem)

According to Xevious at The Atomic Playground, an additional file is needed
to fix the problem. I haven't had the chance to DL that file yet, so I  can't
testify to the effect as whether or not it works.

I posted a message similar to yours on metal programming sig, as was the reply
from Xevious. (Q)uickscan the message base when you log onto VSI.

As a temperary fix, press ctrl-s when metal first begin to compile startup.s.
That should get the code to compile. It will not execute properly however.
To get it to run properly, press oa-ctrl-r to reset metal, then (r)estart.