RE: [MiNT] kernel 1.15.8 bug

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

Please post the config.sys anyway.

Regarding the boot messages -- do you see any from SPIN.XFS (not the BOS
driver)?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Éric Racine
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:47 AM
> To: MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] kernel 1.15.8 bug
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > Please send a more complete description, including
> >
> > - boot messages
> > - config.sys
> >
> > and so on...
>
> Config.sys is the same since 1.15.1, I haven't touched it and my
> last backup shows the file itself is the same.  It has always
> worked fine, until now, anyhow.
>
> The bootup messages shown that METAXBS.PRG installs the CD-ROM as
> a BIOS device B (which is what I have always had).
>
> What should show, but doesn't, is the SPIN.XFS message that it
> just installed device B as drive Q.
>
> Btw, the reason I never noticed it before is, CDP still finds the
> CD_ROM drive and I can still listen to audio CD's.  It's only
> today, when I tried accessing a data CD, that I noticed something
> was wrong.
>
> > > Something I had not really noticed before:
> > >
> > > MiNT 1.15.8 prevents SPIN.XFS from assigning the BOS device to
> > > some DOS drive letter, which means the CD-ROM is never found on
> > > U: nor on the drive alias assigned in CONFIG.SYS.
> > >
> > > Back to 1.15.5, then...
>
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> Martin-Éric Racine  http://funkyware.atari.org/  Atari TT030 FAQ
> Lappeenranta, Finland.  Surfing on a Intel/Microsoft-free GEM OS
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