[Coco] apparently an incomplete errmsg file

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 16 October 2012 22:16:03 Bill Pierce did opine:

> I was going to post a message asking for an explination of what the boot
> screen displays.... This just about answers it all.

One very minor item Bill (and Christopher).  Anyone using an earlier, 
nominally 2008 version of my mouse driver, joydrv_6551L.sb, will see a 
final CJ before the Term screen comes in. The extra J, which has now been 
removed, was my mouse driver saying everything was cool & ready for use.

> Thanks Chris
> Bill P
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Oct 16, 2012 7:56 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] apparently an incomplete errmsg file
> Gene:
> 
> 	According to the boot explaination (attached w/ unix EOLs), It
> looks like it can't open the console.
> 
> i means is about to link to the Init module
> 2 means krnp2 has started
> x means it is about to chd to the system device
> (t is printed because F$Boot was called again)
> o means it is about to open the console
> * means an error occured (in this case, couldn't open the console)


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