Re: FreeMiNT 1.14.7 locks up

[Michael Hill <Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com>]

On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 01:05:54PM +0200, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
[I wrote:]
>> MiNTOS Release 14 (BINARY) #1: Wed Aug 3 20:05:52 1994
>> write_wtmp: file not found
>> init: reboot: writing wtmp entry: file not found
>> 
>> And then it locks up; reset required.
>
>That is MiNTOS (init process) that is unable to find the wtmp for you. Not
>the kernel itself. Please carefully check MINT.CNF file for correct
>pathnames.

Interesting...  Could you please explain the difference between FreeMiNT
and MiNTOS?  I've printed tons of MiNT documents from all over the
Internet, but I don't know that any of them clearly states the
difference.

Is MINT.CNF the config file for FreeMiNT, or for MiNTOS, or for both?
Do you specify paths as d:\path\filename or /path/filename or either?
It's obvious to me that the MINT.CNF syntax is different from the
(for example) .profile or rc file syntax; exactly what role does it
play in MiNT initialization?

For that matter, is there a detailed document anywhere that states
what processes run in what order, and what files are read, and when,
starting when MINT.PRG runs from the AUTO folder?  Something like that
would greatly aid in figuring out problems during booting.

Thanks!

-- 
			--Michael

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