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Article: 12561 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Building C-Kermit on AOS/VS
Date: 2 Jul 2001 14:08:26 GMT
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In article <ha_%6.14145$p41.2481110@news1.rdc1.md.home.com>,
Tom Gutnick <likati2@home.com> wrote:
: Ouch -- my brain hurts trying to remember what I knew 10 years ago! 8^)
: Your MV/2500 was probably set up to run something called SMI -- System
: Management Interface, which would, among other things, automatically invoke
: UP.CLI (the startup script) after the OS boots. On a non-SMI system, early
: in the boot process there is a question "Would you like to override default
: specs?"; I don't remember for sure, but I suspect that with SMI, the
: question still pops up but times out quickly and defaults to "no". If you
: can answer "Y", you'll then be presented with a bunch of other questions,
: one of which should allow you to bypass the startup script.
:
: If you can make it that far, I can help you edit the script. If you're not
: using CEO, no need to run it. And if you're not running CEO, then you won't
: need to run INFOS either. Once we eliminate those, your system will come up
: quicker and run faster.
:
Sounds like a plan, thanks; I'll contact you offline.
: I trust you've been making good backups of the stuff?
:
Unfortunately, the machine has no removeable media. The 9-track tape died
years ago, leaving only some kind of weird cartridge drive which not even
DG knew how to work, and for which there are no cartridges.
: Another thing we can do is run the disk formatter to remap the bad disk
: blocks. (Depending on the nature of the hardware problem, that may
: eliminate your problem or not.)
:
If a bad block is in the operating system file, mapping it out would probably
be a bad thing.
Thanks again!
- Frank